Quotes About Religion

Short Quotes

"How can you have a personal religion, like you have in the world, without God being localized? In the Greater Community, then, God is Knowledge."

• Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 15, p. 196

"What essentially is the role of religious leaders in nearly all situations is to be providers and maintainers."

• The Age of Women (Nov. 14, 2007)

"Your religion now cannot be a religion of one world alone or for one people alone. It will have to be a Greater Community religion - God of the Universe, a spirituality of the Universe..."

• The New God, February 12, 2009

"The old religions, if they are held incontempt of one another, have really become obsolete and will become increasingly so in the future. Now you must see Jesus within the Greater community and Mohammad and the Buddha and all the great saints and emissaries in a larger context, in a greater series of Revelations..."

• The New God, February 12, 2009

Long Quotes

"Fundamentally the purpose of all spiritual development and religious education in its truest sense is to build a connection between your thinking mind, which is a product of all the world’s influences, and the deeper mind within you that God has created within you."

• The Age of Women (Nov. 14, 2007)

"God has planted Knowledge within every person as the seed and source of their redemption. Redemption will not occur because you believe in a great saint or a great Messenger. Redemption will not even occur if you believe in God or practice a religion faithfully, for you are still lost in the mind, the worldly mind. Your attempt at religion is an escape from the world, a desperate attempt to have purpose and meaning in your life that transcends the hard realities that you see all around you."

• Ending Separation (3/3/11)

Religion and the Greater Community

"Religions have life spans. This is true throughout the Greater Community. Religions have life spans because they serve eras of development. Then they are either replaced or they change and expand in order to adapt. If they cannot adapt, they will be replaced because the reality of life will make their teaching and their emphasis less and less relevant and meaningful.

In the Greater Community religions are initiated, they reach a maturity and then they enter old age where they die off. Out of their old age a new impetus, a new meaning and a new message can be given to restore and to renew the race's spiritual vitality and to give this vitality an immediate relevancy to life as it is expanding and developing."

• Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 26

Long Quotes

"This Group Mind process of course is being used throughout the world in leadership circles in government and religion and commerce, but rarely is Knowledge their guide, and rarely do they employ seers. Humanity just has not reached this level of sophistication yet. So regarding your position in the Greater Community, humanity is at a disadvantage here.

"Its strength, your strength, is that religion has been kept alive in the world. The recognition of God’s power and presence is honored and recognized by many, whereas in most nations in this region of space, religion has either become worship of the state or has disappeared altogether.

"Here you have an advantage because even the ancient pathways of religion offer the experience of Knowledge. Perhaps this is not emphasized. Perhaps this is not specified in the Teachings, but the individual is encouraged to have a relationship with the Divine and to be responsive to the Divine in most situations."

• Group Mind 3/18/11

See also

The world's religions