It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.
It is a travesty of true religion to consider one’s own religion as superior and other’s as inferior.
I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.
I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.
I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.
I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.
My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.
My religion has no geographical limits.
My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.
My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.
My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.
In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.
It is no religion to have for one’s wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one’s lap, it is the height of irreligion.