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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
- Phillip Yancey
Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
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Some who grow dull religious straight commence
And gain in morals what they lose in sense.
- Alexander Pope
Minor Poems
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She is standing just behind you. Just behind your right shoulder."
In the silence of the woods, Polly turned.
"I can't see her," she said.
"I am happy for you," said Wazzer, handing her the empty mug.
"But I didn't see anything," said Polly.
"No," said Wazzer. "But you turned around...
- Terry Pratchett
Monstrous Regiment
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The line of communication between God and man is always open unless broken by man himself. We are, as it were, always in the presence of our Father in Heaven. Through His Holy Spirit, God is with us always and everywhere.
- John A. Widtsoe
An Understandable Religion
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We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage.
- Francis Schaeffer
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...Worship of the genius is an echo of this reverence for gods and princes. Wherever one endeavours to elevate individual men to the superhuman, the tendency also exists to imagine whole classes of people as rougher and more base than they really are.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.
- Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Having a religion doesn’t make a person love or not love others. It doesn’t make a person accept or not accept others. It doesn’t make a person befriend or not befriend others.

Being without a religion doesn’t make somebody do or be any of that either.

No, what makes somebody love, accept, and befriend their fellow man is letting go of a need to be better than others.

Nothing else.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
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He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was. A cancerous violence had eaten into every political idea, had taken over the ideas themselves, and for so many, all that mattered was the willingness to do something. Action led to action, free of any moorings, and the way to be someone, the way to catch the attention of the young and recruit them to one's cause, was to be enraged. It seemed as if the only way this lure of violence could be avoided was by having no causes, by being magnificiently isolated from loyalties. But was that not an ethical lapse graver than rage itself?
- Teju Cole
Open City
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Those who find no humor in faith are probably those who find the church a refuge for their own black way of looking at life, although I think many of us find the church a refuge for a lot of our personality faults. Those of us, for example, who never learned to dance feel that the church is an ideal place for us if we can find a church that doesn't believe in dancing. Then we can get away with never having learned how to dance. You can carry this in all sorts of directions and see that the church is a refuge for what is really a 'flaw' in your own makeup.
- Charles M. Schulz
Charles M. Schulz: Conversations
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The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.
- Frank D. Gilroy
The Subject Was Roses
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Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
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Perhaps I shouldn't call it shit. That's a bit crude. I don't really despise Christianity or even the Roman Church, and certainly not the incontrovertible glory of the Middle Ages. What I do despise is the contemporary inclination to flop to the knees and crawl back into the past, to shy from what seem like impossible problems in order to bury the head, asshole aloft and twitching, in the Sands of Time. Cowardice, I calls it. Illusion-seeking. Womb-crawling. And treason. Desertion in the face of the enemy.
Strong words indeed. But I've always been rather a blunt, tough, plain-spoken type . . .
- Edward Abbey
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
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For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith; from pain so deep, it calls on the hidden fears of the soul in an effort to survive. For others it means a serious personal life survey that ultimately forces the confrontation with the futility, anesthetics, and despair in their lives.
- W. Scott Lineberry
Tragedy and Loss and the Search for Jesus
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Dora was stunned by this information. She stopped. 'Do you mean' she said, 'that they're completely imprisoned in there?'
Mrs. Marks laughed. 'Not imprisoned, my dear,' she said. 'They are there of their own free will. This is not a prison. It is on the contrary a place which it is very hard to get into, and only the strongest achieve it. Like Mary in the parable, they have chosen the better part.
- Iris Murdoch
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I prefer a world with many beliefs and religions.
It stimulates my faith to keep growing day by day.
- Toba Beta
My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
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Faith moves mountains.
Religion strip-mines them.
- J.M. Williams
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Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.
- Salvador de Madariaga
Essays with a Purpose
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I am not protecting myself or preaching you my story, Reasons will be many but life will move on even in painful journey.
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According to [Dr. Erich] Fromm, what motivates so many Believers, regardless of religious affiliation, is the image of the Divine, an image that many Believers try to emulate (e.g. Imitatio Christi). Fromm states that within a humanistic religion, “God is the image of man’s [and/or woman’s] higher self, a symbol of what man [or woman] potentially is or ought to become” but “in an authoritarian religion, God becomes the sole possessor” of human’s reason and love.
- Walter A. Jensen
Erich Fromm's contributions to sociological theory
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The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.
- Christopher Hitchens
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
- Phillip Yancey
Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some who grow dull religious straight commence
And gain in morals what they lose in sense.
- Alexander Pope
Minor Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She is standing just behind you. Just behind your right shoulder."
In the silence of the woods, Polly turned.
"I can't see her," she said.
"I am happy for you," said Wazzer, handing her the empty mug.
"But I didn't see anything," said Polly.
"No," said Wazzer. "But you turned around...
- Terry Pratchett
Monstrous Regiment
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The line of communication between God and man is always open unless broken by man himself. We are, as it were, always in the presence of our Father in Heaven. Through His Holy Spirit, God is with us always and everywhere.
- John A. Widtsoe
An Understandable Religion
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We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage.
- Francis Schaeffer
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...Worship of the genius is an echo of this reverence for gods and princes. Wherever one endeavours to elevate individual men to the superhuman, the tendency also exists to imagine whole classes of people as rougher and more base than they really are.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.
- Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Having a religion doesn’t make a person love or not love others. It doesn’t make a person accept or not accept others. It doesn’t make a person befriend or not befriend others.

Being without a religion doesn’t make somebody do or be any of that either.

No, what makes somebody love, accept, and befriend their fellow man is letting go of a need to be better than others.

Nothing else.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was. A cancerous violence had eaten into every political idea, had taken over the ideas themselves, and for so many, all that mattered was the willingness to do something. Action led to action, free of any moorings, and the way to be someone, the way to catch the attention of the young and recruit them to one's cause, was to be enraged. It seemed as if the only way this lure of violence could be avoided was by having no causes, by being magnificiently isolated from loyalties. But was that not an ethical lapse graver than rage itself?
- Teju Cole
Open City
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who find no humor in faith are probably those who find the church a refuge for their own black way of looking at life, although I think many of us find the church a refuge for a lot of our personality faults. Those of us, for example, who never learned to dance feel that the church is an ideal place for us if we can find a church that doesn't believe in dancing. Then we can get away with never having learned how to dance. You can carry this in all sorts of directions and see that the church is a refuge for what is really a 'flaw' in your own makeup.
- Charles M. Schulz
Charles M. Schulz: Conversations
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The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.
- Frank D. Gilroy
The Subject Was Roses
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perhaps I shouldn't call it shit. That's a bit crude. I don't really despise Christianity or even the Roman Church, and certainly not the incontrovertible glory of the Middle Ages. What I do despise is the contemporary inclination to flop to the knees and crawl back into the past, to shy from what seem like impossible problems in order to bury the head, asshole aloft and twitching, in the Sands of Time. Cowardice, I calls it. Illusion-seeking. Womb-crawling. And treason. Desertion in the face of the enemy.
Strong words indeed. But I've always been rather a blunt, tough, plain-spoken type . . .
- Edward Abbey
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith; from pain so deep, it calls on the hidden fears of the soul in an effort to survive. For others it means a serious personal life survey that ultimately forces the confrontation with the futility, anesthetics, and despair in their lives.
- W. Scott Lineberry
Tragedy and Loss and the Search for Jesus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dora was stunned by this information. She stopped. 'Do you mean' she said, 'that they're completely imprisoned in there?'
Mrs. Marks laughed. 'Not imprisoned, my dear,' she said. 'They are there of their own free will. This is not a prison. It is on the contrary a place which it is very hard to get into, and only the strongest achieve it. Like Mary in the parable, they have chosen the better part.
- Iris Murdoch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I prefer a world with many beliefs and religions.
It stimulates my faith to keep growing day by day.
- Toba Beta
My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Faith moves mountains.
Religion strip-mines them.
- J.M. Williams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.
- Salvador de Madariaga
Essays with a Purpose
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am not protecting myself or preaching you my story, Reasons will be many but life will move on even in painful journey.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
According to [Dr. Erich] Fromm, what motivates so many Believers, regardless of religious affiliation, is the image of the Divine, an image that many Believers try to emulate (e.g. Imitatio Christi). Fromm states that within a humanistic religion, “God is the image of man’s [and/or woman’s] higher self, a symbol of what man [or woman] potentially is or ought to become” but “in an authoritarian religion, God becomes the sole possessor” of human’s reason and love.
- Walter A. Jensen
Erich Fromm's contributions to sociological theory
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The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.
- Christopher Hitchens
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
- Phillip Yancey
Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some who grow dull religious straight commence
And gain in morals what they lose in sense.
- Alexander Pope
Minor Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She is standing just behind you. Just behind your right shoulder."
In the silence of the woods, Polly turned.
"I can't see her," she said.
"I am happy for you," said Wazzer, handing her the empty mug.
"But I didn't see anything," said Polly.
"No," said Wazzer. "But you turned around...
- Terry Pratchett
Monstrous Regiment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The line of communication between God and man is always open unless broken by man himself. We are, as it were, always in the presence of our Father in Heaven. Through His Holy Spirit, God is with us always and everywhere.
- John A. Widtsoe
An Understandable Religion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage.
- Francis Schaeffer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...Worship of the genius is an echo of this reverence for gods and princes. Wherever one endeavours to elevate individual men to the superhuman, the tendency also exists to imagine whole classes of people as rougher and more base than they really are.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.
- Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Having a religion doesn’t make a person love or not love others. It doesn’t make a person accept or not accept others. It doesn’t make a person befriend or not befriend others.

Being without a religion doesn’t make somebody do or be any of that either.

No, what makes somebody love, accept, and befriend their fellow man is letting go of a need to be better than others.

Nothing else.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was. A cancerous violence had eaten into every political idea, had taken over the ideas themselves, and for so many, all that mattered was the willingness to do something. Action led to action, free of any moorings, and the way to be someone, the way to catch the attention of the young and recruit them to one's cause, was to be enraged. It seemed as if the only way this lure of violence could be avoided was by having no causes, by being magnificiently isolated from loyalties. But was that not an ethical lapse graver than rage itself?
- Teju Cole
Open City
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who find no humor in faith are probably those who find the church a refuge for their own black way of looking at life, although I think many of us find the church a refuge for a lot of our personality faults. Those of us, for example, who never learned to dance feel that the church is an ideal place for us if we can find a church that doesn't believe in dancing. Then we can get away with never having learned how to dance. You can carry this in all sorts of directions and see that the church is a refuge for what is really a 'flaw' in your own makeup.
- Charles M. Schulz
Charles M. Schulz: Conversations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.
- Frank D. Gilroy
The Subject Was Roses
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perhaps I shouldn't call it shit. That's a bit crude. I don't really despise Christianity or even the Roman Church, and certainly not the incontrovertible glory of the Middle Ages. What I do despise is the contemporary inclination to flop to the knees and crawl back into the past, to shy from what seem like impossible problems in order to bury the head, asshole aloft and twitching, in the Sands of Time. Cowardice, I calls it. Illusion-seeking. Womb-crawling. And treason. Desertion in the face of the enemy.
Strong words indeed. But I've always been rather a blunt, tough, plain-spoken type . . .
- Edward Abbey
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith; from pain so deep, it calls on the hidden fears of the soul in an effort to survive. For others it means a serious personal life survey that ultimately forces the confrontation with the futility, anesthetics, and despair in their lives.
- W. Scott Lineberry
Tragedy and Loss and the Search for Jesus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dora was stunned by this information. She stopped. 'Do you mean' she said, 'that they're completely imprisoned in there?'
Mrs. Marks laughed. 'Not imprisoned, my dear,' she said. 'They are there of their own free will. This is not a prison. It is on the contrary a place which it is very hard to get into, and only the strongest achieve it. Like Mary in the parable, they have chosen the better part.
- Iris Murdoch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I prefer a world with many beliefs and religions.
It stimulates my faith to keep growing day by day.
- Toba Beta
My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Faith moves mountains.
Religion strip-mines them.
- J.M. Williams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.
- Salvador de Madariaga
Essays with a Purpose
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am not protecting myself or preaching you my story, Reasons will be many but life will move on even in painful journey.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
According to [Dr. Erich] Fromm, what motivates so many Believers, regardless of religious affiliation, is the image of the Divine, an image that many Believers try to emulate (e.g. Imitatio Christi). Fromm states that within a humanistic religion, “God is the image of man’s [and/or woman’s] higher self, a symbol of what man [or woman] potentially is or ought to become” but “in an authoritarian religion, God becomes the sole possessor” of human’s reason and love.
- Walter A. Jensen
Erich Fromm's contributions to sociological theory
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.
- Christopher Hitchens
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
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