All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good.

He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason.

But greatly his most important culture he had gathered — and this, too, by his own endeavors — from the better part of the district, the religious men; to whom, as to the most excellent, his own nature gradually attached and attracted him. He was religious with the consent of his whole faculties. Without religion he would have been nothing.

Now let us look to the ancient inhabitants of India. With them, first of all, religion was not only one interest by the side of many. It was the all-absorbing interest; it embraced not only worship and prayer, but what we call philosophy, morality, law, and government, — all was pervaded by religion. Their whole life was to them a religion — everything else was, as it were, a mere concession made to the ephemeral requirements of this life.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

Love is a discipline, like prayer,” I said.

Religion does not consist alone in reverence or adoration for a special object; but it makes that reverence the controlling and prompting influence of all other faculties of the mind. Thus there can be a religion of intellect, of love, of every department of the human mind; and a religion of life combines the whole of human existence, and makes up the sum of every department of earthly life.

For some, religion is a law, a guidance, a direction; for others - a policeman.

Religion...is a man's total reaction upon life.

Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

धर्म’ शब्द को अब अंग्रेज़ी शब्दकोशों में भी शामिल किया जाने लगा है। (उदाहरण के लिए, चैम्बर्स ट्‌वेंटिएथ सेंचुरी डिक्शनरी में ‘धर्म’ का अर्थ ‘राइशियसनेस दैट अण्डरलाइज़ द लॉ’ दिया गया है।) इसे एक सन्तोषजनक अर्थ माना जा सकता है। दरअसल, अंग्रेज़ी का कोई भी इकलौता शब्द (फेथ, रिलिजन, या लॉ) ‘धर्म’ के पूरे अर्थ को अभिव्यक्त नहीं कर सकता।

Religion is more than rite and ritual.