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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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Many of the traditional approaches to interfaith dialogue have assumed that it can be successful only if agreements are reached about amorphous concepts and themes that various traditions may have in common. These approaches have also assumed that participants have to "weaken" or "compromise" elements of their own faith... this is not necessarily constructive for engaging in interfaith understanding and dialogue. It is only when participants have a deep understanding of their own religious traditions and are willing to learn and recognize the richness of other religious traditions that constructive cooperation can take place between groups from different faiths. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 57-58)
- David R. Smock
Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding
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I think all the politicians in Brazil use God. They always present themselves as the defenders of God. This is because power searches for its legitimation starting from God, religious legitimation. (Carlos Mesers, p. 123)
- Mev Puleo
The Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation
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Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use his reasoning faculty in all matters involving truth, and especially as concerning his religion. He must learn to distinguish between truth and error.
- John A. Widtsoe
Rational Theology
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The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.
- George Bernard Shaw
Misalliance
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Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.
- Stephen Prothero
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
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Moral beauty existed as clearly as any other form of beauty and perhaps that was where we could find the God who was so vividly, and sometimes bizarrely, described in our noisy religious explanations. It was an intriguing thought, as it meant that a concert could be a spiritual experience, a secular painting a religious icon, a beguiling face a passing angel.
- Alexander McCall Smith
The Lost Art of Gratitude
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Holiness was always something richly dim.
- A.E. Coppard
Dusky Ruth and Other Stories
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Salahkah bila kita membela seseorang yang kita cintai walaupun sesungguhnya kita tahu ia tak memerlukan pembelaan kita,

Salahkah bila kita membelai mesra pakaian sang kekasih walau kita tahu pasti pakaian bukanlah kekasih itu

Lalu salahkan bila kita melakukannya untuk Tuhan?
- Gema
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Nie betrieben die Menschen das Böse so umfassend und freudig wie aus religiöser Überzeugung.
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Religion deals with both earth and heaven, both time and eternity. Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself. This means, at bottom, that the Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God; on the other hand it seeks to change the environmental conditions of men so that the soul will have a chance after it is changed. Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
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The men-first hierarchy delivered as advertised. Organizing God is so vulnerable to human corruption, it should be the most terrifying venture on earth to attempt. No one means for it to, but add power, money, and arbitrary rules of engagement to any pure thing, and attrition is inevitable.
- Jen Hatmaker
Awake
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Every person carries a secret wound, religion we run to is the bandage that fits.
- Abhijit Naskar
Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
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But all my life I’d remain a questioning man,
choosing debate over faith, sparring
with mystery, claiming logic over belief.

But in the funeral parlor, the grief
of seeing the shell of my mother’s body
bereft of spirit brought death to my inner cynic,

with her words, my god, my god,
being stuck in my throat as I stood
there, her broken son, preaching.
- Roger Robinson
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Wonder and reason are not opposites. They are two parts of the same whole - a thirst for truth in the search for meaning.
- Bob Hoyng
Nothing Becomes
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When I was much younger, I never believed I was to be a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, or any other religion. I grew up believing I was god.
- Lord Uzih
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The only way to soothe an angry God is to make sure you tiptoe quietly.
- Tia Levings
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
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Man did not discover God; he invented Him, in the fearful shadows of his own ignorance, to command the obedience he could not earn.
- Unknown Author
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Faith without factories is dead
- ‘Yemi Success, MD
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Her family members and their friends and associates were, for the most part, rigorous Unitarians and well-known Transcendentalists. But for all their liberalism in religion, in terms of their public and private behavior they were still old-fashioned, upright Puritans. 'In other words, they are good people,' she said. 'Morally upright.' Their generation had abandoned the Calvinist theology in their youth, but had kept the morality. She, on the other hand, having been encouraged by her elders since her nursery days to forsake the old Puritan forms of religion, had retained none of the Puritans' moral uprightness and rigor. She was a sinner, she said. A sinner without the comfort of prayer and with no possibility of redemption.
- Russell Banks
Cloudsplitter
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Pain is the most easily accessible feeling. Gratitude is the most difficult. The path from Pain to Gratitude is Religion.
- Adeel Ahmed Khan
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Service of humanity is supreme shahada,
to defend the persecuted is cosmic khalsa,
to treat neighbor as god is real dharma,
quiet kindness is the real karma.

Ana al-haqq, ana al-hub -
aham bindu, aham brahmanda.
I shed dogma like dead skin,
el cosmos es mi casa.
- Abhijit Naskar
Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
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Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
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Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
- Terry Pratchett
Monstrous Regiment
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Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
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Many of the traditional approaches to interfaith dialogue have assumed that it can be successful only if agreements are reached about amorphous concepts and themes that various traditions may have in common. These approaches have also assumed that participants have to "weaken" or "compromise" elements of their own faith... this is not necessarily constructive for engaging in interfaith understanding and dialogue. It is only when participants have a deep understanding of their own religious traditions and are willing to learn and recognize the richness of other religious traditions that constructive cooperation can take place between groups from different faiths. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 57-58)
- David R. Smock
Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding
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I think all the politicians in Brazil use God. They always present themselves as the defenders of God. This is because power searches for its legitimation starting from God, religious legitimation. (Carlos Mesers, p. 123)
- Mev Puleo
The Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation
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Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use his reasoning faculty in all matters involving truth, and especially as concerning his religion. He must learn to distinguish between truth and error.
- John A. Widtsoe
Rational Theology
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The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.
- George Bernard Shaw
Misalliance
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Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.
- Stephen Prothero
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Moral beauty existed as clearly as any other form of beauty and perhaps that was where we could find the God who was so vividly, and sometimes bizarrely, described in our noisy religious explanations. It was an intriguing thought, as it meant that a concert could be a spiritual experience, a secular painting a religious icon, a beguiling face a passing angel.
- Alexander McCall Smith
The Lost Art of Gratitude
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Holiness was always something richly dim.
- A.E. Coppard
Dusky Ruth and Other Stories
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Salahkah bila kita membela seseorang yang kita cintai walaupun sesungguhnya kita tahu ia tak memerlukan pembelaan kita,

Salahkah bila kita membelai mesra pakaian sang kekasih walau kita tahu pasti pakaian bukanlah kekasih itu

Lalu salahkan bila kita melakukannya untuk Tuhan?
- Gema
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Nie betrieben die Menschen das Böse so umfassend und freudig wie aus religiöser Überzeugung.
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Religion deals with both earth and heaven, both time and eternity. Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself. This means, at bottom, that the Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God; on the other hand it seeks to change the environmental conditions of men so that the soul will have a chance after it is changed. Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
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The men-first hierarchy delivered as advertised. Organizing God is so vulnerable to human corruption, it should be the most terrifying venture on earth to attempt. No one means for it to, but add power, money, and arbitrary rules of engagement to any pure thing, and attrition is inevitable.
- Jen Hatmaker
Awake
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Every person carries a secret wound, religion we run to is the bandage that fits.
- Abhijit Naskar
Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
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But all my life I’d remain a questioning man,
choosing debate over faith, sparring
with mystery, claiming logic over belief.

But in the funeral parlor, the grief
of seeing the shell of my mother’s body
bereft of spirit brought death to my inner cynic,

with her words, my god, my god,
being stuck in my throat as I stood
there, her broken son, preaching.
- Roger Robinson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wonder and reason are not opposites. They are two parts of the same whole - a thirst for truth in the search for meaning.
- Bob Hoyng
Nothing Becomes
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When I was much younger, I never believed I was to be a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, or any other religion. I grew up believing I was god.
- Lord Uzih
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The only way to soothe an angry God is to make sure you tiptoe quietly.
- Tia Levings
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
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Man did not discover God; he invented Him, in the fearful shadows of his own ignorance, to command the obedience he could not earn.
- Unknown Author
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Faith without factories is dead
- ‘Yemi Success, MD
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Her family members and their friends and associates were, for the most part, rigorous Unitarians and well-known Transcendentalists. But for all their liberalism in religion, in terms of their public and private behavior they were still old-fashioned, upright Puritans. 'In other words, they are good people,' she said. 'Morally upright.' Their generation had abandoned the Calvinist theology in their youth, but had kept the morality. She, on the other hand, having been encouraged by her elders since her nursery days to forsake the old Puritan forms of religion, had retained none of the Puritans' moral uprightness and rigor. She was a sinner, she said. A sinner without the comfort of prayer and with no possibility of redemption.
- Russell Banks
Cloudsplitter
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Pain is the most easily accessible feeling. Gratitude is the most difficult. The path from Pain to Gratitude is Religion.
- Adeel Ahmed Khan
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Service of humanity is supreme shahada,
to defend the persecuted is cosmic khalsa,
to treat neighbor as god is real dharma,
quiet kindness is the real karma.

Ana al-haqq, ana al-hub -
aham bindu, aham brahmanda.
I shed dogma like dead skin,
el cosmos es mi casa.
- Abhijit Naskar
Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
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Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
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Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
- Terry Pratchett
Monstrous Regiment
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Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
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Many of the traditional approaches to interfaith dialogue have assumed that it can be successful only if agreements are reached about amorphous concepts and themes that various traditions may have in common. These approaches have also assumed that participants have to "weaken" or "compromise" elements of their own faith... this is not necessarily constructive for engaging in interfaith understanding and dialogue. It is only when participants have a deep understanding of their own religious traditions and are willing to learn and recognize the richness of other religious traditions that constructive cooperation can take place between groups from different faiths. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 57-58)
- David R. Smock
Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think all the politicians in Brazil use God. They always present themselves as the defenders of God. This is because power searches for its legitimation starting from God, religious legitimation. (Carlos Mesers, p. 123)
- Mev Puleo
The Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use his reasoning faculty in all matters involving truth, and especially as concerning his religion. He must learn to distinguish between truth and error.
- John A. Widtsoe
Rational Theology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.
- George Bernard Shaw
Misalliance
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.
- Stephen Prothero
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Moral beauty existed as clearly as any other form of beauty and perhaps that was where we could find the God who was so vividly, and sometimes bizarrely, described in our noisy religious explanations. It was an intriguing thought, as it meant that a concert could be a spiritual experience, a secular painting a religious icon, a beguiling face a passing angel.
- Alexander McCall Smith
The Lost Art of Gratitude
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Holiness was always something richly dim.
- A.E. Coppard
Dusky Ruth and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Salahkah bila kita membela seseorang yang kita cintai walaupun sesungguhnya kita tahu ia tak memerlukan pembelaan kita,

Salahkah bila kita membelai mesra pakaian sang kekasih walau kita tahu pasti pakaian bukanlah kekasih itu

Lalu salahkan bila kita melakukannya untuk Tuhan?
- Gema
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nie betrieben die Menschen das Böse so umfassend und freudig wie aus religiöser Überzeugung.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion deals with both earth and heaven, both time and eternity. Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself. This means, at bottom, that the Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God; on the other hand it seeks to change the environmental conditions of men so that the soul will have a chance after it is changed. Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The men-first hierarchy delivered as advertised. Organizing God is so vulnerable to human corruption, it should be the most terrifying venture on earth to attempt. No one means for it to, but add power, money, and arbitrary rules of engagement to any pure thing, and attrition is inevitable.
- Jen Hatmaker
Awake
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Every person carries a secret wound, religion we run to is the bandage that fits.
- Abhijit Naskar
Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
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But all my life I’d remain a questioning man,
choosing debate over faith, sparring
with mystery, claiming logic over belief.

But in the funeral parlor, the grief
of seeing the shell of my mother’s body
bereft of spirit brought death to my inner cynic,

with her words, my god, my god,
being stuck in my throat as I stood
there, her broken son, preaching.
- Roger Robinson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wonder and reason are not opposites. They are two parts of the same whole - a thirst for truth in the search for meaning.
- Bob Hoyng
Nothing Becomes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I was much younger, I never believed I was to be a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, or any other religion. I grew up believing I was god.
- Lord Uzih
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only way to soothe an angry God is to make sure you tiptoe quietly.
- Tia Levings
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man did not discover God; he invented Him, in the fearful shadows of his own ignorance, to command the obedience he could not earn.
- Unknown Author
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Faith without factories is dead
- ‘Yemi Success, MD
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Her family members and their friends and associates were, for the most part, rigorous Unitarians and well-known Transcendentalists. But for all their liberalism in religion, in terms of their public and private behavior they were still old-fashioned, upright Puritans. 'In other words, they are good people,' she said. 'Morally upright.' Their generation had abandoned the Calvinist theology in their youth, but had kept the morality. She, on the other hand, having been encouraged by her elders since her nursery days to forsake the old Puritan forms of religion, had retained none of the Puritans' moral uprightness and rigor. She was a sinner, she said. A sinner without the comfort of prayer and with no possibility of redemption.
- Russell Banks
Cloudsplitter
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Pain is the most easily accessible feeling. Gratitude is the most difficult. The path from Pain to Gratitude is Religion.
- Adeel Ahmed Khan
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Service of humanity is supreme shahada,
to defend the persecuted is cosmic khalsa,
to treat neighbor as god is real dharma,
quiet kindness is the real karma.

Ana al-haqq, ana al-hub -
aham bindu, aham brahmanda.
I shed dogma like dead skin,
el cosmos es mi casa.
- Abhijit Naskar
Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
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Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
- Terry Pratchett
Monstrous Regiment
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Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
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