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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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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
Topic: Inspirational, Religion
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Learn to distinguish religiosity from godliness. A godly person may not be religious; a religious person may not be godly. Godliness rises above religion, tribe, race, and politics.
- Prince Uduak Pedro
Topic: Relationships, Religion
Topic: Relationships, Religion
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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Topic: Religion
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I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
- C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
- Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
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Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.

Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
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A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.
- Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion
Topic: Religion
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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
Topic: Religion
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.
- Terry Pratchett
Wyrd Sisters
NOT YET RATED ▼
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries
- Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I have found God, but he is insufficient.
- Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.
- John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
- Imam Al-Haddad
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
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All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
- Titus Lucretius Carus
On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization.
NOT YET RATED ▼
Topic: Religion
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But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
- C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg
NOT YET RATED ▼
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.
- Pema Chodron
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
Topic: Inspirational, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Learn to distinguish religiosity from godliness. A godly person may not be religious; a religious person may not be godly. Godliness rises above religion, tribe, race, and politics.
- Prince Uduak Pedro
Topic: Relationships, Religion
Topic: Relationships, Religion
5.0 ★ ▼
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
- C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
- Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.

Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.
- Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
Topic: Religion
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.
- Terry Pratchett
Wyrd Sisters
NOT YET RATED ▼
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries
- Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I have found God, but he is insufficient.
- Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.
- John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
- Imam Al-Haddad
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
- Titus Lucretius Carus
On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization.
NOT YET RATED ▼
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
- C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg
NOT YET RATED ▼
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.
- Pema Chodron
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
Topic: Inspirational, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Learn to distinguish religiosity from godliness. A godly person may not be religious; a religious person may not be godly. Godliness rises above religion, tribe, race, and politics.
- Prince Uduak Pedro
Topic: Relationships, Religion
Topic: Relationships, Religion
5.0 ★ ▼
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
- C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
- Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.

Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.
- Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
Topic: Religion
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.
- Terry Pratchett
Wyrd Sisters
NOT YET RATED ▼
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries
- Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I have found God, but he is insufficient.
- Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.
- John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
- Imam Al-Haddad
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
- Titus Lucretius Carus
On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization.
NOT YET RATED ▼
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
- C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg
NOT YET RATED ▼
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.
- Pema Chodron
Topic: Religion
Topic: Religion
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