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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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There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad...To produce this horrible confection at home, start with our genocidal treatment of the Native Americans, add a couple hundred years of slavery, along with our denial of entry to Jewish refugees fleeing the death camps of the Third Reich, stir in our collusion with a long list of modern despots and our subsequent disregard for their appalling human rights records, add our bombing of Cambodia and the Pentagon Papers to taste, and then top with our recent refusals to sign the Kyoto protocol for greenhouse emissions, to support any ban on land mines, and to submit ourselves to the rulings of the International Criminal Court. The result should smell of death, hypocrisy, and fresh brimstone.
- Sam Harris
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
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Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!
- Wei Wu Wei
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In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.
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It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will...

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's the real rebellion.
- Alice Cooper
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....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.
- Craig Werner
Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
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So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.
- Sheldon B. Kopp
If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
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The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant.

"May I ask you a question?"

"Yes."

"Have you ever thought you were Christ?"

"I can't say that I have. But I have considered that God was good to me to let me find what I was looking for, if that's what you mean.
- Ray Bradbury
Long After Midnight
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By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
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Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.
- Arthur Symons
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
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It is difficult to describe the peace that comes with giving yourself permission to know what you know. To have hard, complicated realities staring at you and be able to raise your head and look back at them with a steady gaze, scared maybe, grieved perhaps, but straight on and unwavering
- Valerie Tarico Ph.D.
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For myself I couldn't care less, but I have a lover. Not a partner, Susannah, or a friend or a significant euphemism, but the love of my life. And he believes. And I've watched him tie himself in knots, as he struggles to find a place for himself in texts that were written thousands of years ago, with the deliberate aim of excluding him.
- Michael Arditti
The Enemy of the Good
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Theologians and other clerks,
You won't understand this book,
-- However bright your wits --
If you do not meet it humbly,
And in this way, Love and Faith
Make you surmount Reason, for
They are the protectors of Reason's house.
- Marguerite Porete
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The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural.
- David Gibson
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
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But, is this right for my family? The plan was centered on publicity. Would the boys have to testify? Newspaper reporters would hound them. What would things be like at school? Kids could be so cruel. Would the boys be subjected to cruel jokes about sexual desires and preferences? Was her imagination carrying her away, or were these realistic fears?
- Mark M. Bello
Betrayal of Faith
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.
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On Thirty-Seventh I spot a church. I climb the stairs and try the door, but it's locked. God must be sleeping in. I look left and right. Still no Sign. I'm looking for something subtle, along the lines of a long-haired man turning water into wine and holding a placard proclaiming himself to be Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior.
- Nicola Yoon
The Sun Is Also a Star
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I shoplifted from your height
and got me some
window ledge religion

Since then,
I have been trying
to drop dead
- Casey Renee Kiser
Swan Wreck
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Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.
- Rob Bell
What We Talk about When We Talk about God
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... challenge the church to do better, be more of who Christ wants us to be ...
- Justin Lee
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-Vs.-Christians Debate
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But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Its table d´hôte or nothing, otherwise…well, it would be silly.
- Terry Pratchett
Going Postal
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Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.
- Charles F. Stanley
God's Way Day By Day: A Daily Devotional for Discovering God’s Life-Changing Wisdom (365 Devotions - Inspiration for Every Day of the Year) – The Perfect Christian New Year's Resolution Gift
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The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.
- Marina Warner
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
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Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)
- Jonathan Haidt
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There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad...To produce this horrible confection at home, start with our genocidal treatment of the Native Americans, add a couple hundred years of slavery, along with our denial of entry to Jewish refugees fleeing the death camps of the Third Reich, stir in our collusion with a long list of modern despots and our subsequent disregard for their appalling human rights records, add our bombing of Cambodia and the Pentagon Papers to taste, and then top with our recent refusals to sign the Kyoto protocol for greenhouse emissions, to support any ban on land mines, and to submit ourselves to the rulings of the International Criminal Court. The result should smell of death, hypocrisy, and fresh brimstone.
- Sam Harris
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!
- Wei Wu Wei
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will...

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's the real rebellion.
- Alice Cooper
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.
- Craig Werner
Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.
- Sheldon B. Kopp
If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant.

"May I ask you a question?"

"Yes."

"Have you ever thought you were Christ?"

"I can't say that I have. But I have considered that God was good to me to let me find what I was looking for, if that's what you mean.
- Ray Bradbury
Long After Midnight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.
- Arthur Symons
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is difficult to describe the peace that comes with giving yourself permission to know what you know. To have hard, complicated realities staring at you and be able to raise your head and look back at them with a steady gaze, scared maybe, grieved perhaps, but straight on and unwavering
- Valerie Tarico Ph.D.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For myself I couldn't care less, but I have a lover. Not a partner, Susannah, or a friend or a significant euphemism, but the love of my life. And he believes. And I've watched him tie himself in knots, as he struggles to find a place for himself in texts that were written thousands of years ago, with the deliberate aim of excluding him.
- Michael Arditti
The Enemy of the Good
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Theologians and other clerks,
You won't understand this book,
-- However bright your wits --
If you do not meet it humbly,
And in this way, Love and Faith
Make you surmount Reason, for
They are the protectors of Reason's house.
- Marguerite Porete
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural.
- David Gibson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But, is this right for my family? The plan was centered on publicity. Would the boys have to testify? Newspaper reporters would hound them. What would things be like at school? Kids could be so cruel. Would the boys be subjected to cruel jokes about sexual desires and preferences? Was her imagination carrying her away, or were these realistic fears?
- Mark M. Bello
Betrayal of Faith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On Thirty-Seventh I spot a church. I climb the stairs and try the door, but it's locked. God must be sleeping in. I look left and right. Still no Sign. I'm looking for something subtle, along the lines of a long-haired man turning water into wine and holding a placard proclaiming himself to be Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior.
- Nicola Yoon
The Sun Is Also a Star
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I shoplifted from your height
and got me some
window ledge religion

Since then,
I have been trying
to drop dead
- Casey Renee Kiser
Swan Wreck
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.
- Rob Bell
What We Talk about When We Talk about God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
... challenge the church to do better, be more of who Christ wants us to be ...
- Justin Lee
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-Vs.-Christians Debate
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Its table d´hôte or nothing, otherwise…well, it would be silly.
- Terry Pratchett
Going Postal
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.
- Charles F. Stanley
God's Way Day By Day: A Daily Devotional for Discovering God’s Life-Changing Wisdom (365 Devotions - Inspiration for Every Day of the Year) – The Perfect Christian New Year's Resolution Gift
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.
- Marina Warner
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)
- Jonathan Haidt
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad...To produce this horrible confection at home, start with our genocidal treatment of the Native Americans, add a couple hundred years of slavery, along with our denial of entry to Jewish refugees fleeing the death camps of the Third Reich, stir in our collusion with a long list of modern despots and our subsequent disregard for their appalling human rights records, add our bombing of Cambodia and the Pentagon Papers to taste, and then top with our recent refusals to sign the Kyoto protocol for greenhouse emissions, to support any ban on land mines, and to submit ourselves to the rulings of the International Criminal Court. The result should smell of death, hypocrisy, and fresh brimstone.
- Sam Harris
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!
- Wei Wu Wei
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will...

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's the real rebellion.
- Alice Cooper
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.
- Craig Werner
Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.
- Sheldon B. Kopp
If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant.

"May I ask you a question?"

"Yes."

"Have you ever thought you were Christ?"

"I can't say that I have. But I have considered that God was good to me to let me find what I was looking for, if that's what you mean.
- Ray Bradbury
Long After Midnight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.
- Arthur Symons
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is difficult to describe the peace that comes with giving yourself permission to know what you know. To have hard, complicated realities staring at you and be able to raise your head and look back at them with a steady gaze, scared maybe, grieved perhaps, but straight on and unwavering
- Valerie Tarico Ph.D.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For myself I couldn't care less, but I have a lover. Not a partner, Susannah, or a friend or a significant euphemism, but the love of my life. And he believes. And I've watched him tie himself in knots, as he struggles to find a place for himself in texts that were written thousands of years ago, with the deliberate aim of excluding him.
- Michael Arditti
The Enemy of the Good
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Theologians and other clerks,
You won't understand this book,
-- However bright your wits --
If you do not meet it humbly,
And in this way, Love and Faith
Make you surmount Reason, for
They are the protectors of Reason's house.
- Marguerite Porete
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural.
- David Gibson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But, is this right for my family? The plan was centered on publicity. Would the boys have to testify? Newspaper reporters would hound them. What would things be like at school? Kids could be so cruel. Would the boys be subjected to cruel jokes about sexual desires and preferences? Was her imagination carrying her away, or were these realistic fears?
- Mark M. Bello
Betrayal of Faith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On Thirty-Seventh I spot a church. I climb the stairs and try the door, but it's locked. God must be sleeping in. I look left and right. Still no Sign. I'm looking for something subtle, along the lines of a long-haired man turning water into wine and holding a placard proclaiming himself to be Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior.
- Nicola Yoon
The Sun Is Also a Star
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I shoplifted from your height
and got me some
window ledge religion

Since then,
I have been trying
to drop dead
- Casey Renee Kiser
Swan Wreck
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.
- Rob Bell
What We Talk about When We Talk about God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
... challenge the church to do better, be more of who Christ wants us to be ...
- Justin Lee
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-Vs.-Christians Debate
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Its table d´hôte or nothing, otherwise…well, it would be silly.
- Terry Pratchett
Going Postal
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.
- Charles F. Stanley
God's Way Day By Day: A Daily Devotional for Discovering God’s Life-Changing Wisdom (365 Devotions - Inspiration for Every Day of the Year) – The Perfect Christian New Year's Resolution Gift
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.
- Marina Warner
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)
- Jonathan Haidt
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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