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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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What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it.
- Umera Ahmed
Peer e Kamil
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece
- Dan Brown
Angels & Demons
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
- Sarah Vowell
Unfamiliar Fishes
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.
- Carl Sagan
Contact
Topic: Religion
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Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls us and for Whom our heart is searching.
- Seraphim Rose
Topic: Religion
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If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles evil, how can faith know its own power? In my own pilgrimage, if I had to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naive faith that has never known the firing line of doubt, I will choose the former every time.
- Gary Parker
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Stephen Covey
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
All four of us gasped at the same time—the tree reached the ceiling and curled down at least a foot! What were we to do now?
- Larada Horner-Miller
Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Hero of Ages
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.
- Bill Maher
When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
- Mohandas Gandhi
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'm Catholic. I don't pray, I just ask for forgiveness after.
- Abigail Roux
Crash & Burn
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.
- Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
HUMANITY DOES NOT FAVOUR ANY HUMAN BEING OVER ANOTHER,

FOR RACE, RELIGION, SEXUALITY, AGE OR GENDER...

JUST LIKE A LOVING MOTHER

WHO DOES NOT FAVOUR ONE CHILD OVER ANOTHER.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.
- Hemant Mehta
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?
- St. Bonaventure
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship
- Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
The bowl of saki: Thoughts for daily contemplation from the sayings and teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
God is universal," spluttered the priest.
The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God."
"And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit.
"Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls."
"They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in.
"While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it.
- Umera Ahmed
Peer e Kamil
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece
- Dan Brown
Angels & Demons
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
- Sarah Vowell
Unfamiliar Fishes
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.
- Carl Sagan
Contact
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls us and for Whom our heart is searching.
- Seraphim Rose
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles evil, how can faith know its own power? In my own pilgrimage, if I had to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naive faith that has never known the firing line of doubt, I will choose the former every time.
- Gary Parker
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Stephen Covey
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
All four of us gasped at the same time—the tree reached the ceiling and curled down at least a foot! What were we to do now?
- Larada Horner-Miller
Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Hero of Ages
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.
- Bill Maher
When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
- Mohandas Gandhi
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'm Catholic. I don't pray, I just ask for forgiveness after.
- Abigail Roux
Crash & Burn
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.
- Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
HUMANITY DOES NOT FAVOUR ANY HUMAN BEING OVER ANOTHER,

FOR RACE, RELIGION, SEXUALITY, AGE OR GENDER...

JUST LIKE A LOVING MOTHER

WHO DOES NOT FAVOUR ONE CHILD OVER ANOTHER.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.
- Hemant Mehta
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?
- St. Bonaventure
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship
- Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
The bowl of saki: Thoughts for daily contemplation from the sayings and teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
God is universal," spluttered the priest.
The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God."
"And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit.
"Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls."
"They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in.
"While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it.
- Umera Ahmed
Peer e Kamil
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece
- Dan Brown
Angels & Demons
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
- Sarah Vowell
Unfamiliar Fishes
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.
- Carl Sagan
Contact
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls us and for Whom our heart is searching.
- Seraphim Rose
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles evil, how can faith know its own power? In my own pilgrimage, if I had to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naive faith that has never known the firing line of doubt, I will choose the former every time.
- Gary Parker
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Stephen Covey
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
All four of us gasped at the same time—the tree reached the ceiling and curled down at least a foot! What were we to do now?
- Larada Horner-Miller
Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Hero of Ages
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.
- Bill Maher
When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
- Mohandas Gandhi
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'm Catholic. I don't pray, I just ask for forgiveness after.
- Abigail Roux
Crash & Burn
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.
- Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
HUMANITY DOES NOT FAVOUR ANY HUMAN BEING OVER ANOTHER,

FOR RACE, RELIGION, SEXUALITY, AGE OR GENDER...

JUST LIKE A LOVING MOTHER

WHO DOES NOT FAVOUR ONE CHILD OVER ANOTHER.
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.
- Hemant Mehta
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?
- St. Bonaventure
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship
- Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
The bowl of saki: Thoughts for daily contemplation from the sayings and teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Topic: Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
God is universal," spluttered the priest.
The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God."
"And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit.
"Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls."
"They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in.
"While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Topic: Religion
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