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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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You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele, are merely a personification of this power invented for simpletons so they can understand it better, accept its existence. According to you, that power is blind. But for me, Geralt, faith allows you to expect what my goddess personifies from nature: order, law, goodness. And hope.
- Andrzej Sapkowski
The Last Wish
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Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.
- Amit Ray
Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
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…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
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The scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.
- Sheri S. Tepper
The Fresco
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As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
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religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all.
- Wm. Paul Young
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Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.
- Penn Jillette
God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
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National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
- Umberto Eco
The Prague Cemetery
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The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.
- Pope Benedict-XVI
Sacramentum Caritatis: On the Eucharist as the Source and Summit of the Church's Life and Mission
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God loves you, but not enough to save you.
- Ethel Cain
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.
- Tom Robbins
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
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While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.
- Amartya Sen
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
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The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
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Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God’s love.
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In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
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But we should not cling! A plague upon fundamentalists and literalists! I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous with God.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
- Marquis de Sade
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Far from seeking to
justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and
afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this
world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness
would rend my heart.
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
Against Nature
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
- Karl Marx
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
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God, come down, if you're really there -
Well, you're the one who claims to care!
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If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.
- C.S. Lewis
Reflections on the Psalms
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I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
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If you want to teach your children that they are the tools of God, you had better not teach them that they are God's rifles, or we will have to stand firmly opposed to you: your doctrine has no glory, no special rights, no intrinsic and inalienable merit. If you insist on teaching your children false-hoods—that the Earth is flat, that "Man" is not a product of evolution by natural selection—then you must expect, at the very least, that those of us who have freedom of speech will feel free to describe your teachings as the spreading of falsehoods, and will attempt to demonstrate this to your children at our earliest opportunity. Our future well-being—the well-being of all of us on the planet—depends on the education of our descendants.
- Daniel C. Dennett
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele, are merely a personification of this power invented for simpletons so they can understand it better, accept its existence. According to you, that power is blind. But for me, Geralt, faith allows you to expect what my goddess personifies from nature: order, law, goodness. And hope.
- Andrzej Sapkowski
The Last Wish
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Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.
- Amit Ray
Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
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…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.
- Sheri S. Tepper
The Fresco
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As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
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religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all.
- Wm. Paul Young
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.
- Penn Jillette
God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
- Umberto Eco
The Prague Cemetery
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The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.
- Pope Benedict-XVI
Sacramentum Caritatis: On the Eucharist as the Source and Summit of the Church's Life and Mission
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God loves you, but not enough to save you.
- Ethel Cain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.
- Tom Robbins
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.
- Amartya Sen
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God’s love.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But we should not cling! A plague upon fundamentalists and literalists! I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous with God.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
- Marquis de Sade
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Far from seeking to
justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and
afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this
world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness
would rend my heart.
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
Against Nature
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
- Karl Marx
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God, come down, if you're really there -
Well, you're the one who claims to care!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.
- C.S. Lewis
Reflections on the Psalms
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want to teach your children that they are the tools of God, you had better not teach them that they are God's rifles, or we will have to stand firmly opposed to you: your doctrine has no glory, no special rights, no intrinsic and inalienable merit. If you insist on teaching your children false-hoods—that the Earth is flat, that "Man" is not a product of evolution by natural selection—then you must expect, at the very least, that those of us who have freedom of speech will feel free to describe your teachings as the spreading of falsehoods, and will attempt to demonstrate this to your children at our earliest opportunity. Our future well-being—the well-being of all of us on the planet—depends on the education of our descendants.
- Daniel C. Dennett
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele, are merely a personification of this power invented for simpletons so they can understand it better, accept its existence. According to you, that power is blind. But for me, Geralt, faith allows you to expect what my goddess personifies from nature: order, law, goodness. And hope.
- Andrzej Sapkowski
The Last Wish
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.
- Amit Ray
Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.
- Sheri S. Tepper
The Fresco
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all.
- Wm. Paul Young
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.
- Penn Jillette
God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
- Umberto Eco
The Prague Cemetery
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.
- Pope Benedict-XVI
Sacramentum Caritatis: On the Eucharist as the Source and Summit of the Church's Life and Mission
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God loves you, but not enough to save you.
- Ethel Cain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.
- Tom Robbins
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.
- Amartya Sen
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God’s love.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But we should not cling! A plague upon fundamentalists and literalists! I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous with God.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
- Marquis de Sade
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Far from seeking to
justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and
afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this
world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness
would rend my heart.
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
Against Nature
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
- Karl Marx
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God, come down, if you're really there -
Well, you're the one who claims to care!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.
- C.S. Lewis
Reflections on the Psalms
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want to teach your children that they are the tools of God, you had better not teach them that they are God's rifles, or we will have to stand firmly opposed to you: your doctrine has no glory, no special rights, no intrinsic and inalienable merit. If you insist on teaching your children false-hoods—that the Earth is flat, that "Man" is not a product of evolution by natural selection—then you must expect, at the very least, that those of us who have freedom of speech will feel free to describe your teachings as the spreading of falsehoods, and will attempt to demonstrate this to your children at our earliest opportunity. Our future well-being—the well-being of all of us on the planet—depends on the education of our descendants.
- Daniel C. Dennett
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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