Religion means to know God and to love Him.
“First-class religion teaches one how to love God without any motive. If I serve God for some profit, that is business-not love.”
“Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities.”
“The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.”
“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries ...”
“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non-Catholic), 3:16”