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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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And here's something else, another problem you might have: Suppose your prayers aren't answered. What do you say? "Well, it's God's will." "Thy Will Be Done." Fine, but if it's God's will, and He's going to do what He wants to anyway, why the fuck bother praying in the first place? Seems like a big waste of time to me! Couldn't you just skip the praying part and go right to His Will? It's all very confusing.
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A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
Auguries of Innocence
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
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Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for nothing. They've been cheated. They're dupes."

Waddington reflected for a little while. "I wonder if it matters what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books the write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
- W Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
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You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.
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We are all glittering stars and one day we will come together in the brightest star of all – God himself. This is humanity’s destiny. Is that not an inspiring vision of humanity? We are not mere humans; we are divine beings, a community of gods en route to becoming God himself
- Michael Faust
The Right-Brain God
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If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
- Carl Sagan
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
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Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:

"It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Nectar of Devotion: The Complete Science of Bhakti-Yoga
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It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.
- James Martineau
Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau
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Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.
- William K. Mahony
The Artful Universe: An Introduction to the Vedic Religious Imagination
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Sin is a gravitation.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
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If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.
- Neal Stephenson
Anathem
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On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Pearls Of Eternity
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The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow – Hope shining upon the tears of grief.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no longer be any gods, only men. We would give them knowledge of the sciences and the arts, which we possess, and in so doing we would destroy their simple faith and remove all basis for their hoping that things will be better—for the best way to destroy faith or hope is to let it be realized.
- Roger Zelazny
Lord of Light
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In times like these, he said, it must be hard for the churches to go on telling people that their Heavenly Father cared about the death of even a single sparrow.
- Thomas Keneally
Schindler's List
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You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
- Rick Warren
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The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.
- Gautama Buddha
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A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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And here's something else, another problem you might have: Suppose your prayers aren't answered. What do you say? "Well, it's God's will." "Thy Will Be Done." Fine, but if it's God's will, and He's going to do what He wants to anyway, why the fuck bother praying in the first place? Seems like a big waste of time to me! Couldn't you just skip the praying part and go right to His Will? It's all very confusing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
Auguries of Innocence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for nothing. They've been cheated. They're dupes."

Waddington reflected for a little while. "I wonder if it matters what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books the write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
- W Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
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You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all glittering stars and one day we will come together in the brightest star of all – God himself. This is humanity’s destiny. Is that not an inspiring vision of humanity? We are not mere humans; we are divine beings, a community of gods en route to becoming God himself
- Michael Faust
The Right-Brain God
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If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
- Carl Sagan
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:

"It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Nectar of Devotion: The Complete Science of Bhakti-Yoga
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.
- James Martineau
Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau
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Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.
- William K. Mahony
The Artful Universe: An Introduction to the Vedic Religious Imagination
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sin is a gravitation.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.
- Neal Stephenson
Anathem
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On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Pearls Of Eternity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow – Hope shining upon the tears of grief.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no longer be any gods, only men. We would give them knowledge of the sciences and the arts, which we possess, and in so doing we would destroy their simple faith and remove all basis for their hoping that things will be better—for the best way to destroy faith or hope is to let it be realized.
- Roger Zelazny
Lord of Light
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In times like these, he said, it must be hard for the churches to go on telling people that their Heavenly Father cared about the death of even a single sparrow.
- Thomas Keneally
Schindler's List
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
- Rick Warren
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.
- Gautama Buddha
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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And here's something else, another problem you might have: Suppose your prayers aren't answered. What do you say? "Well, it's God's will." "Thy Will Be Done." Fine, but if it's God's will, and He's going to do what He wants to anyway, why the fuck bother praying in the first place? Seems like a big waste of time to me! Couldn't you just skip the praying part and go right to His Will? It's all very confusing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
Auguries of Innocence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for nothing. They've been cheated. They're dupes."

Waddington reflected for a little while. "I wonder if it matters what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books the write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
- W Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all glittering stars and one day we will come together in the brightest star of all – God himself. This is humanity’s destiny. Is that not an inspiring vision of humanity? We are not mere humans; we are divine beings, a community of gods en route to becoming God himself
- Michael Faust
The Right-Brain God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
- Carl Sagan
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:

"It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Nectar of Devotion: The Complete Science of Bhakti-Yoga
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.
- James Martineau
Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.
- William K. Mahony
The Artful Universe: An Introduction to the Vedic Religious Imagination
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sin is a gravitation.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.
- Neal Stephenson
Anathem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Pearls Of Eternity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow – Hope shining upon the tears of grief.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no longer be any gods, only men. We would give them knowledge of the sciences and the arts, which we possess, and in so doing we would destroy their simple faith and remove all basis for their hoping that things will be better—for the best way to destroy faith or hope is to let it be realized.
- Roger Zelazny
Lord of Light
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In times like these, he said, it must be hard for the churches to go on telling people that their Heavenly Father cared about the death of even a single sparrow.
- Thomas Keneally
Schindler's List
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
- Rick Warren
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.
- Gautama Buddha
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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