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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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Just like we separated church from the state, it's time we separate the sacred from supernatural. If you cannot fathom holiness without hocus focus, your church, your yoga, all are circus of animals.
- Abhijit Naskar
Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
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For human beings need to be put together more than they need to be taken apart.
- Fulton Sheen
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Nostradamus tends to use the imagery of ancient namesakes (such as Greek or Roman moon goddesses) in his descriptions, which, if I understand them correctly, are a reference to the end of the Major Occultation in Shia Islam.
I deduce that Selene and Diana were expressed by him to symbolise a full moon, as opposed to the crescent, which I believe to suggest a coming revelation for all believers.
- Khalil Kalifa
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A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit’s constituent rigor and humility and self-honesty are, in fact, so hard to maintain on certain issues that it’s almost irresistibly tempting to fall in with some established dogmatic camp and to follow that camp’s line on the issue and to let your position harden within the camp and become inflexible and to believe that the other camps are either evil or insane and to spend all your time and energy trying to shout over them.
- David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?
- Isaac Asimov
I. Asimov: A Memoir
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There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
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If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.
- Jess C Scott
Rockstar
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Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.
- Jim Butcher
White Night
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If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
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The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
- Geerhardus Vos
Redemptive History & Biblical Interpretation: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos
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I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.
- Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.
- Rosemary Haughton
Transformation of Man
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The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.
- Alain de Botton
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
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Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.
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Allaah subhanahuu, rejects those who refused Allaah’s Shareeah; the laws that are good for the Muslims; the laws that forbid what is evil. Allaah rejects those who follow laws of personal desires and who adopt laws of Kufr such as the laws enforced by the Tartars who were under the control of Gengiz Khan, their king. These laws were a mixture of Judaism, Christianity and laws chosen by their king that suited his desires. Should we prefer these laws to the Sharee`ah of Allaah and His Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)?
- Ibnu Katsir
Tafsir Ibnu Katsir
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[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions into a myth-mash that illuminates many sects' fanatical compartmentalizing, and the fact that so many religions and philosophies share similar goals, if not roots.
- Stephan Delbos
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God is peace, bliss, beauty and truth. Focus your energy on that, life will be like that.
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
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Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.
- Tsugumi Ohba
Death Note, Vol. 12: Finis
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Just like we separated church from the state, it's time we separate the sacred from supernatural. If you cannot fathom holiness without hocus focus, your church, your yoga, all are circus of animals.
- Abhijit Naskar
Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
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For human beings need to be put together more than they need to be taken apart.
- Fulton Sheen
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Nostradamus tends to use the imagery of ancient namesakes (such as Greek or Roman moon goddesses) in his descriptions, which, if I understand them correctly, are a reference to the end of the Major Occultation in Shia Islam.
I deduce that Selene and Diana were expressed by him to symbolise a full moon, as opposed to the crescent, which I believe to suggest a coming revelation for all believers.
- Khalil Kalifa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit’s constituent rigor and humility and self-honesty are, in fact, so hard to maintain on certain issues that it’s almost irresistibly tempting to fall in with some established dogmatic camp and to follow that camp’s line on the issue and to let your position harden within the camp and become inflexible and to believe that the other camps are either evil or insane and to spend all your time and energy trying to shout over them.
- David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?
- Isaac Asimov
I. Asimov: A Memoir
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There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
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If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.
- Jess C Scott
Rockstar
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Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.
- Jim Butcher
White Night
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If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
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The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
- Geerhardus Vos
Redemptive History & Biblical Interpretation: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos
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I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.
- Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.
- Rosemary Haughton
Transformation of Man
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The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.
- Alain de Botton
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
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Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Allaah subhanahuu, rejects those who refused Allaah’s Shareeah; the laws that are good for the Muslims; the laws that forbid what is evil. Allaah rejects those who follow laws of personal desires and who adopt laws of Kufr such as the laws enforced by the Tartars who were under the control of Gengiz Khan, their king. These laws were a mixture of Judaism, Christianity and laws chosen by their king that suited his desires. Should we prefer these laws to the Sharee`ah of Allaah and His Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)?
- Ibnu Katsir
Tafsir Ibnu Katsir
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[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions into a myth-mash that illuminates many sects' fanatical compartmentalizing, and the fact that so many religions and philosophies share similar goals, if not roots.
- Stephan Delbos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God is peace, bliss, beauty and truth. Focus your energy on that, life will be like that.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
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Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.
- Tsugumi Ohba
Death Note, Vol. 12: Finis
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Just like we separated church from the state, it's time we separate the sacred from supernatural. If you cannot fathom holiness without hocus focus, your church, your yoga, all are circus of animals.
- Abhijit Naskar
Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For human beings need to be put together more than they need to be taken apart.
- Fulton Sheen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nostradamus tends to use the imagery of ancient namesakes (such as Greek or Roman moon goddesses) in his descriptions, which, if I understand them correctly, are a reference to the end of the Major Occultation in Shia Islam.
I deduce that Selene and Diana were expressed by him to symbolise a full moon, as opposed to the crescent, which I believe to suggest a coming revelation for all believers.
- Khalil Kalifa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit’s constituent rigor and humility and self-honesty are, in fact, so hard to maintain on certain issues that it’s almost irresistibly tempting to fall in with some established dogmatic camp and to follow that camp’s line on the issue and to let your position harden within the camp and become inflexible and to believe that the other camps are either evil or insane and to spend all your time and energy trying to shout over them.
- David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?
- Isaac Asimov
I. Asimov: A Memoir
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There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.
- Jess C Scott
Rockstar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.
- Jim Butcher
White Night
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
- Geerhardus Vos
Redemptive History & Biblical Interpretation: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.
- Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.
- Rosemary Haughton
Transformation of Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.
- Alain de Botton
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Allaah subhanahuu, rejects those who refused Allaah’s Shareeah; the laws that are good for the Muslims; the laws that forbid what is evil. Allaah rejects those who follow laws of personal desires and who adopt laws of Kufr such as the laws enforced by the Tartars who were under the control of Gengiz Khan, their king. These laws were a mixture of Judaism, Christianity and laws chosen by their king that suited his desires. Should we prefer these laws to the Sharee`ah of Allaah and His Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)?
- Ibnu Katsir
Tafsir Ibnu Katsir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions into a myth-mash that illuminates many sects' fanatical compartmentalizing, and the fact that so many religions and philosophies share similar goals, if not roots.
- Stephan Delbos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God is peace, bliss, beauty and truth. Focus your energy on that, life will be like that.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
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Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.
- Tsugumi Ohba
Death Note, Vol. 12: Finis
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