Quotes Concerning Religion
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• Attr. Ko Hung (Confucian-Taoist 284-363 AD) - "Respect the old and cherish the young. Even insects, grass and trees you must not hurt."

• William Ralph Inge (Author, Anglican prelate: Outspoken Essays, 1922) – "We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

• Jainism – "Flesh can not be procured without causing destruction of life; one who uses flesh, therefore, commits hisma (injury) unavoidably.”

• Kabir (Sufi Mystic) - "Fast all day, kill cows at night; here prayers, there blood — does this please God?"

• Koran – "There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature on two Wings, but they are people like unto you.”

• Abraham Lincoln – "I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

• Reverend Andrew Linzey – "To stand for Christ is to stand against the evil of cruelty inflicted on those who are weak, vulnerable, unprotected, undefended, morally innocent, and in that class we must unambiguously include animals.”

• Cardinal John Henry Newman – "Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love God [. . .] there is something so dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.”

• Plutarch or Mestrius Plutarchus (circa 45-125 A.D., Priest of the Delphic Oracle, Philosopher) - "But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy."

• Pythagoras – "Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.”

• Romans 14:19-21 (Christian Bible)– “Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak."

• Dr. Robert Runchie (Archbishop of Canterbury) – "In the end, a lack of regard for the life and well-being of an animal must bring with it a lowering of man’s self respect, and it is integral to our Christian faith that this world is God’s world and that man is a trustee and steward of God’s creation who must render up an account for his stewardship."

• Dr. Albert Schweitzer - "We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering."

• Anna Sewell - "There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham."

• George Bernard Shaw - "The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That is the essence of inhumanity"

• Sila-prabhrita (Jainist) - "Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality."

• Isaac Bashevis Singer (Author, Nobel 1978) - "Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God."

• Reverend Carl A. Skriver – "The true God is love, goodness, and mercy – not sacrifice, cruelty, killing, and murder [. . .] We shall not kill or sacrifice other creatures for him; we shall only sacrifice ourselves for our human and animal brothers."

• St. Francis of Assisi - "If you have men who will exclude any of god's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, then you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men..."

• Sutrakritanga (Jainist) - All beings hate pains; therefore one should not kill them. This is the quintessence of wisdom: not to kill anything."

• Sutrakritanga (Jainist) - All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law."

• Count Leo Tolstoy - "Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai."

• Pierre Troubetzkoy – "Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by what is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?"

• John Wesley – "I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to a broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth."

• Right Reverend John Chandler White – "It is time, fully time, that all Christian people awake to the necessity in taking an active part in the fight against what I dare to call the Crime of Animal Cruelty. Everyone who loves God and animals should help bear the burden of the fight against this insidious evil."

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