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Quotes about religion reflect humanity’s enduring search for meaning, purpose, and the sacred. They express faith, doubt, devotion, and reflection across cultures and traditions. The following collection offers perspectives that invite contemplation on belief and the role it plays in human life.   ◀ Back
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For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have.
- Karl Rahner
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Way I sees it is dis. If’n ya gots to hab a rule to tells ya wha’s good, if’n ya gots to hab good ’splained to ya, den ya cain’t be good. If’n ya need sum kinda God to tells ya right from wrong, den you won’t never know.
- Percival Everett
James
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Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also.
- Oscar Wilde
De Profundis and Other Writings
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God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.
- Barbara Hambly
The Armies of Daylight
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Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.
- Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino»
Zori 2ª Parte
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It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste for maladies and hunger for depravities. One only troubles oneself with saints because one has been disappointed by the paradoxes of earthly life; one therefore searches out other paradoxes, more outlandish in guise, redolent of unknown truths, unknown perfumes...
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I believe that people who are devoutly religious, within any specific religion, have no true respect for the ultimate vastness that is God.
- Clair Huffaker
The Cowboy and the Cossack
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Each of us knows it all, and knows he knows it all—the rest, to a man, are fools and eluded. One man knows there is a hell, the next one knows there isn’t; one man knows monarchy is best, the next one knows it isn’t; one man knows high tariff is right, the next man knows it isn’t; one man knows there are witches, the next one knows there aren’t; one sect knows its religion is the only true one, there are sixty-four thousand five hundred million sects that know it isn’t so.
- Mark Twain
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
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I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?
- Chris Martin (from Coldplay)
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.
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The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.
- Jimmy Buffett
A Pirate Looks at Fifty
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Religion turned some folks belligerent.
- Eileen Wilks
On the Prowl
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Hit don’t make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o’ churches. There’s the Nazarene Church and the Pentecost and the Holy Rollers and the Baptists and I don’t know what-all. I cain’t see much difference to nary one of ‘em. There’s a good to all of ‘em and there’s a bad.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
South Moon Under
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Immortal amarant, a flower which once
In paradise, fast by the tree of life,
Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence
To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows,
And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life,
And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven
Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream:
With these that never fade the spirits elect
Bind their resplendent locks.
- John Milton
Paradise Lost
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Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.
- Brando Skyhorse
The Madonnas of Echo Park
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...The Qur'an cannot be translated. ...The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Qur'an, that inimitable symphony, the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy. It is only an attempt to present the meaning of the Qur'an-and peradventure something of the charm in English. It can never take the place of the Qur'an in Arabic, nor is it meant to do so...
- Pickthall M. Marmaduke
The Meanings of the Glorious Qur'an
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The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he has more than once said publicly that he wants to be anointed as defender of all faiths—another indication of the amazing conceit he has developed in six decades of performing the only job allowed him by the hereditary principle: that of waiting for his mother to expire.
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the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
- Anonymous
The Holy Bible: King James Version
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Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives.
- Santosh Kalwar
A Very First Book Of Poems: Heartbreak
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If anything or anyone removes peace from you or inflicts confusion and judgment on you, this thing or person is not of God regardless of whether or not that person or thing has wrapped itself/himself in the wrapping paper with God's face printed all over it. Don't stop believing in God but stop believing in that person, in that thing. The wrapping paper with God's face stamped all over it isn't really God.
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I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.
- Billy Connolly
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Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.
- Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man
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For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have.
- Karl Rahner
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Way I sees it is dis. If’n ya gots to hab a rule to tells ya wha’s good, if’n ya gots to hab good ’splained to ya, den ya cain’t be good. If’n ya need sum kinda God to tells ya right from wrong, den you won’t never know.
- Percival Everett
James
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Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also.
- Oscar Wilde
De Profundis and Other Writings
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God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.
- Barbara Hambly
The Armies of Daylight
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Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.
- Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino»
Zori 2ª Parte
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It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste for maladies and hunger for depravities. One only troubles oneself with saints because one has been disappointed by the paradoxes of earthly life; one therefore searches out other paradoxes, more outlandish in guise, redolent of unknown truths, unknown perfumes...
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I believe that people who are devoutly religious, within any specific religion, have no true respect for the ultimate vastness that is God.
- Clair Huffaker
The Cowboy and the Cossack
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Each of us knows it all, and knows he knows it all—the rest, to a man, are fools and eluded. One man knows there is a hell, the next one knows there isn’t; one man knows monarchy is best, the next one knows it isn’t; one man knows high tariff is right, the next man knows it isn’t; one man knows there are witches, the next one knows there aren’t; one sect knows its religion is the only true one, there are sixty-four thousand five hundred million sects that know it isn’t so.
- Mark Twain
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
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I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?
- Chris Martin (from Coldplay)
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.
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The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.
- Jimmy Buffett
A Pirate Looks at Fifty
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Religion turned some folks belligerent.
- Eileen Wilks
On the Prowl
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Hit don’t make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o’ churches. There’s the Nazarene Church and the Pentecost and the Holy Rollers and the Baptists and I don’t know what-all. I cain’t see much difference to nary one of ‘em. There’s a good to all of ‘em and there’s a bad.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
South Moon Under
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Immortal amarant, a flower which once
In paradise, fast by the tree of life,
Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence
To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows,
And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life,
And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven
Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream:
With these that never fade the spirits elect
Bind their resplendent locks.
- John Milton
Paradise Lost
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Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.
- Brando Skyhorse
The Madonnas of Echo Park
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...The Qur'an cannot be translated. ...The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Qur'an, that inimitable symphony, the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy. It is only an attempt to present the meaning of the Qur'an-and peradventure something of the charm in English. It can never take the place of the Qur'an in Arabic, nor is it meant to do so...
- Pickthall M. Marmaduke
The Meanings of the Glorious Qur'an
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The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he has more than once said publicly that he wants to be anointed as defender of all faiths—another indication of the amazing conceit he has developed in six decades of performing the only job allowed him by the hereditary principle: that of waiting for his mother to expire.
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the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
- Anonymous
The Holy Bible: King James Version
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Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives.
- Santosh Kalwar
A Very First Book Of Poems: Heartbreak
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If anything or anyone removes peace from you or inflicts confusion and judgment on you, this thing or person is not of God regardless of whether or not that person or thing has wrapped itself/himself in the wrapping paper with God's face printed all over it. Don't stop believing in God but stop believing in that person, in that thing. The wrapping paper with God's face stamped all over it isn't really God.
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I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.
- Billy Connolly
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Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.
- Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man
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For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have.
- Karl Rahner
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Way I sees it is dis. If’n ya gots to hab a rule to tells ya wha’s good, if’n ya gots to hab good ’splained to ya, den ya cain’t be good. If’n ya need sum kinda God to tells ya right from wrong, den you won’t never know.
- Percival Everett
James
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Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also.
- Oscar Wilde
De Profundis and Other Writings
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God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.
- Barbara Hambly
The Armies of Daylight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.
- Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino»
Zori 2ª Parte
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste for maladies and hunger for depravities. One only troubles oneself with saints because one has been disappointed by the paradoxes of earthly life; one therefore searches out other paradoxes, more outlandish in guise, redolent of unknown truths, unknown perfumes...
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I believe that people who are devoutly religious, within any specific religion, have no true respect for the ultimate vastness that is God.
- Clair Huffaker
The Cowboy and the Cossack
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Each of us knows it all, and knows he knows it all—the rest, to a man, are fools and eluded. One man knows there is a hell, the next one knows there isn’t; one man knows monarchy is best, the next one knows it isn’t; one man knows high tariff is right, the next man knows it isn’t; one man knows there are witches, the next one knows there aren’t; one sect knows its religion is the only true one, there are sixty-four thousand five hundred million sects that know it isn’t so.
- Mark Twain
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?
- Chris Martin (from Coldplay)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.
- Jimmy Buffett
A Pirate Looks at Fifty
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion turned some folks belligerent.
- Eileen Wilks
On the Prowl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hit don’t make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o’ churches. There’s the Nazarene Church and the Pentecost and the Holy Rollers and the Baptists and I don’t know what-all. I cain’t see much difference to nary one of ‘em. There’s a good to all of ‘em and there’s a bad.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
South Moon Under
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Immortal amarant, a flower which once
In paradise, fast by the tree of life,
Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence
To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows,
And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life,
And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven
Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream:
With these that never fade the spirits elect
Bind their resplendent locks.
- John Milton
Paradise Lost
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.
- Brando Skyhorse
The Madonnas of Echo Park
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...The Qur'an cannot be translated. ...The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Qur'an, that inimitable symphony, the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy. It is only an attempt to present the meaning of the Qur'an-and peradventure something of the charm in English. It can never take the place of the Qur'an in Arabic, nor is it meant to do so...
- Pickthall M. Marmaduke
The Meanings of the Glorious Qur'an
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he has more than once said publicly that he wants to be anointed as defender of all faiths—another indication of the amazing conceit he has developed in six decades of performing the only job allowed him by the hereditary principle: that of waiting for his mother to expire.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
- Anonymous
The Holy Bible: King James Version
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives.
- Santosh Kalwar
A Very First Book Of Poems: Heartbreak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If anything or anyone removes peace from you or inflicts confusion and judgment on you, this thing or person is not of God regardless of whether or not that person or thing has wrapped itself/himself in the wrapping paper with God's face printed all over it. Don't stop believing in God but stop believing in that person, in that thing. The wrapping paper with God's face stamped all over it isn't really God.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.
- Billy Connolly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.
- Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man
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