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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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Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities.
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Science of Self-Realization
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Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.
- Norman G. Finkelstein
Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
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Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman, the god-within... underlying its whirlpool of transient feelings, emotions, and delusions is the self-luminous, abiding point of the transpersonal god. As the sun lights the world even when cloud-covered, “the Immutable is never seen but is the Witness; it is never heard but is the Hearer; it is never thought but is the Thinker; it is never known but is the Knower. There is no other witness but This, no other knower but This." from the Upanishad
- Huston Smith
The World's Religions
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If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
"No", said the priest, "not if you did not know."
"Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?
- Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.
- Rob Bell
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
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When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn’t ask questions.
- Catherine Anderson
Annie's Song
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Penegakan sistem Islam dan pemberlakuan syariat Islam tidak dapat dilakukan dengan cara merebut kekuasaan yang datang dari lapisan atas. Akan tetapi, melalui perubahan masyarakat secara keseluruhan—atau pemahaman beberapa kelompok masyarakat dalam jumlah yang mencukupi untuk mengarahkan seluruh masyarakat—pada pemikirannya, nilai-nilainya, akhlaknya, dan komitmennya dengan Islam. Sehingga tumbuh kesadaran dalam jiwa mereka, bahwa menegakkan sistem dan syariat Islam itu merupakan sebuah kewajiban yang harus dilaksanakan.
- Sayyid Quthb
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
- William Sloane Coffin
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[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.
- Bart D. Ehrman
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
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In BANKSY we trust.
- Colin Tegerdine
You Can't Google Life
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I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.
- H.P. Lovecraft
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But somehow, once you start playing behind the steering wheel of God, you realize just how powerful it is to be the imagination driving the natural world (64).
- Kola Boof
The Sexy Part of the Bible
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I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.
- Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph and Other Stories
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He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports. He cared not for the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life."
- R. Bosworth Smith
Mohammed and Mohammedanism
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Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.
- Franklin Foer
How Soccer Explains the World
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It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness this article deplores is precisely the spirit in which it is written. Of course he's right about many things, one of them being the destructive potency of religious self-righteousness. (p. 146)
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Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The contest, for sure, has with [sic] own laws (so that after God and the Devil 'tackle a guy, they don't kick him in the head'), but each side is not above cheating—with God breaking the rules occasionally by throwing in 'a miracle'. Strangely, Mailer doesn’t mention Jesus in this agonising analogy, but then the notion of the 'super-sub' may be an image too far even for him.
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Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.
- Alan Aldridge
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God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.
- St. Teresa of Ávila
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My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power. Once you identify the faith with a particular candidate or party or with the quest for political influence, ultimately it is the faith that suffers. Compromise may work in politics. It's less appropriate to the realm of faith and belief.
- Randall Balmer
God in the White House: A History: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
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Some believe God is in the sky,
Others believe God is in the church
But few believe God is in them...
I wonder why?
- Sanjo Jendayi
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If we have just partaken of a philosopher's wisdom, we go through the streets feeling as if we had been transformed and had become great; for we encounter only people who do not know this wisdom, and thus we have to deliver a new, unheard-of judgement about everything; because we have acknowledged a book of laws, we also think we now have to act like judges
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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If the way of wisdom was easy, anyone would have walked in. Wisdom is not a whore she is a shy mademoiselle so only those who strives wins her heart.
- Rajesh Nanoo
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One's true religion is what one cares about most.
- Walter Starcke
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Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities.
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Science of Self-Realization
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.
- Norman G. Finkelstein
Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
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Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman, the god-within... underlying its whirlpool of transient feelings, emotions, and delusions is the self-luminous, abiding point of the transpersonal god. As the sun lights the world even when cloud-covered, “the Immutable is never seen but is the Witness; it is never heard but is the Hearer; it is never thought but is the Thinker; it is never known but is the Knower. There is no other witness but This, no other knower but This." from the Upanishad
- Huston Smith
The World's Religions
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If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
"No", said the priest, "not if you did not know."
"Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?
- Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.
- Rob Bell
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
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When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn’t ask questions.
- Catherine Anderson
Annie's Song
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Penegakan sistem Islam dan pemberlakuan syariat Islam tidak dapat dilakukan dengan cara merebut kekuasaan yang datang dari lapisan atas. Akan tetapi, melalui perubahan masyarakat secara keseluruhan—atau pemahaman beberapa kelompok masyarakat dalam jumlah yang mencukupi untuk mengarahkan seluruh masyarakat—pada pemikirannya, nilai-nilainya, akhlaknya, dan komitmennya dengan Islam. Sehingga tumbuh kesadaran dalam jiwa mereka, bahwa menegakkan sistem dan syariat Islam itu merupakan sebuah kewajiban yang harus dilaksanakan.
- Sayyid Quthb
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
- William Sloane Coffin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.
- Bart D. Ehrman
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
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In BANKSY we trust.
- Colin Tegerdine
You Can't Google Life
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I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.
- H.P. Lovecraft
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But somehow, once you start playing behind the steering wheel of God, you realize just how powerful it is to be the imagination driving the natural world (64).
- Kola Boof
The Sexy Part of the Bible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.
- Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports. He cared not for the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life."
- R. Bosworth Smith
Mohammed and Mohammedanism
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.
- Franklin Foer
How Soccer Explains the World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness this article deplores is precisely the spirit in which it is written. Of course he's right about many things, one of them being the destructive potency of religious self-righteousness. (p. 146)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The contest, for sure, has with [sic] own laws (so that after God and the Devil 'tackle a guy, they don't kick him in the head'), but each side is not above cheating—with God breaking the rules occasionally by throwing in 'a miracle'. Strangely, Mailer doesn’t mention Jesus in this agonising analogy, but then the notion of the 'super-sub' may be an image too far even for him.
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Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.
- Alan Aldridge
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God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.
- St. Teresa of Ávila
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power. Once you identify the faith with a particular candidate or party or with the quest for political influence, ultimately it is the faith that suffers. Compromise may work in politics. It's less appropriate to the realm of faith and belief.
- Randall Balmer
God in the White House: A History: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
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Some believe God is in the sky,
Others believe God is in the church
But few believe God is in them...
I wonder why?
- Sanjo Jendayi
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If we have just partaken of a philosopher's wisdom, we go through the streets feeling as if we had been transformed and had become great; for we encounter only people who do not know this wisdom, and thus we have to deliver a new, unheard-of judgement about everything; because we have acknowledged a book of laws, we also think we now have to act like judges
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the way of wisdom was easy, anyone would have walked in. Wisdom is not a whore she is a shy mademoiselle so only those who strives wins her heart.
- Rajesh Nanoo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One's true religion is what one cares about most.
- Walter Starcke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities.
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Science of Self-Realization
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.
- Norman G. Finkelstein
Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman, the god-within... underlying its whirlpool of transient feelings, emotions, and delusions is the self-luminous, abiding point of the transpersonal god. As the sun lights the world even when cloud-covered, “the Immutable is never seen but is the Witness; it is never heard but is the Hearer; it is never thought but is the Thinker; it is never known but is the Knower. There is no other witness but This, no other knower but This." from the Upanishad
- Huston Smith
The World's Religions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
"No", said the priest, "not if you did not know."
"Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?
- Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.
- Rob Bell
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn’t ask questions.
- Catherine Anderson
Annie's Song
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Penegakan sistem Islam dan pemberlakuan syariat Islam tidak dapat dilakukan dengan cara merebut kekuasaan yang datang dari lapisan atas. Akan tetapi, melalui perubahan masyarakat secara keseluruhan—atau pemahaman beberapa kelompok masyarakat dalam jumlah yang mencukupi untuk mengarahkan seluruh masyarakat—pada pemikirannya, nilai-nilainya, akhlaknya, dan komitmennya dengan Islam. Sehingga tumbuh kesadaran dalam jiwa mereka, bahwa menegakkan sistem dan syariat Islam itu merupakan sebuah kewajiban yang harus dilaksanakan.
- Sayyid Quthb
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
- William Sloane Coffin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.
- Bart D. Ehrman
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In BANKSY we trust.
- Colin Tegerdine
You Can't Google Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.
- H.P. Lovecraft
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But somehow, once you start playing behind the steering wheel of God, you realize just how powerful it is to be the imagination driving the natural world (64).
- Kola Boof
The Sexy Part of the Bible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.
- Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports. He cared not for the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life."
- R. Bosworth Smith
Mohammed and Mohammedanism
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.
- Franklin Foer
How Soccer Explains the World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness this article deplores is precisely the spirit in which it is written. Of course he's right about many things, one of them being the destructive potency of religious self-righteousness. (p. 146)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The contest, for sure, has with [sic] own laws (so that after God and the Devil 'tackle a guy, they don't kick him in the head'), but each side is not above cheating—with God breaking the rules occasionally by throwing in 'a miracle'. Strangely, Mailer doesn’t mention Jesus in this agonising analogy, but then the notion of the 'super-sub' may be an image too far even for him.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.
- Alan Aldridge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.
- St. Teresa of Ávila
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power. Once you identify the faith with a particular candidate or party or with the quest for political influence, ultimately it is the faith that suffers. Compromise may work in politics. It's less appropriate to the realm of faith and belief.
- Randall Balmer
God in the White House: A History: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some believe God is in the sky,
Others believe God is in the church
But few believe God is in them...
I wonder why?
- Sanjo Jendayi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we have just partaken of a philosopher's wisdom, we go through the streets feeling as if we had been transformed and had become great; for we encounter only people who do not know this wisdom, and thus we have to deliver a new, unheard-of judgement about everything; because we have acknowledged a book of laws, we also think we now have to act like judges
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the way of wisdom was easy, anyone would have walked in. Wisdom is not a whore she is a shy mademoiselle so only those who strives wins her heart.
- Rajesh Nanoo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One's true religion is what one cares about most.
- Walter Starcke
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