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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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Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.
- Anonymous
Holy Bible: New International Version
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
- C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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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.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
- Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
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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
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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
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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
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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
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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
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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I have found God, but he is insufficient.
- Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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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
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People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.
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Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
- Imam Al-Haddad
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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
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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.
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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
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Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.
- Anonymous
Holy Bible: New International Version
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
- C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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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.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
- Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
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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
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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
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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
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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
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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
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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I have found God, but he is insufficient.
- Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
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People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.
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Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
- Imam Al-Haddad
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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
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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.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
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Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.
- Anonymous
Holy Bible: New International Version
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
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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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
- C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
- Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have found God, but he is insufficient.
- Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
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People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
- Imam Al-Haddad
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
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