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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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We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.
- William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Telling
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It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.
- Jack Gilbert
Collected Poems
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Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
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Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.
- Émile Zola
The Joy of Life
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You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant to know that there's no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who loves you personally. It's not sad to feel that life and the love of your real friends and family is more than enough to make life worth living. Isn't it much sadder to feel that there is a more important love required than the love of the people who have chosen to spend their limited time with you?
- Penn Jillette
God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
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Christians. They’re determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones.”

The Lady’s face hardened. “This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.
- Brom
The Child Thief
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I've never had much use for religion, except when it comes to swearing or begging for mercy.
- Mark Lawrence
The Wheel of Osheim
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It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.
- Sheldon Vanauken
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Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.
- Margaret Atwood
Bluebeard's Egg
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We are not sheep or cows. God didn’t create fences for us or boundaries to contain our nationalities. Man did. God didn’t draw up religious barriers to separate us from each other. Man did. And on top of that, no father would like to see his children fighting or killing each other. The Creator favors the man who spreads loves over the man who spreads hate. A religious title does not make anyone more superior over another. If a kind man stands by his conscience and exhibits truth in his words and actions, he will stand by God regardless of his faith. If mankind wants to evolve, we must learn from our past mistakes. If not, our technology will evolve without us.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory. If it be sought, that others may take notice of it, and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then damnable pride; if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification.
- Jonathan Edwards
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
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religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.
- Regis Debray
Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms
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Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
- Margaret Atwood
The Year of the Flood
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The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he abandons abstract speculation and reverts to a mode of response that becomes increasingly cautious and conservative as the forces he hopes to subdue, or at least to outrun, draw ever nearer.
- René Girard
Violence and the Sacred
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Prayer opens the door
For God to work in our lives
Prayer is to be our first
Response to everything
When you start your day
Give Him your first words
Give Him your first moment
- Louise Bélanger
Your Words
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I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.
- Isabel Allende
Mi país inventado: Un paseo nostálgico por Chile
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At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
- Banksy
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If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.
- Mary Griffith
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Two or three angels
Came near to the earth.
They saw a fat church.
Little black streams of people
Came and went in continually.
And the angels were puzzled
To know why the people went thus,
And why they stayed so long within.
- Stephen Crane
The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
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We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.
- Michael Polanyi
Meaning
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It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied.
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We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe.
- Chris Hedges
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We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.
- William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Telling
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It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.
- Jack Gilbert
Collected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.
- Émile Zola
The Joy of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant to know that there's no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who loves you personally. It's not sad to feel that life and the love of your real friends and family is more than enough to make life worth living. Isn't it much sadder to feel that there is a more important love required than the love of the people who have chosen to spend their limited time with you?
- Penn Jillette
God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Christians. They’re determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones.”

The Lady’s face hardened. “This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.
- Brom
The Child Thief
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I've never had much use for religion, except when it comes to swearing or begging for mercy.
- Mark Lawrence
The Wheel of Osheim
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.
- Sheldon Vanauken
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.
- Margaret Atwood
Bluebeard's Egg
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We are not sheep or cows. God didn’t create fences for us or boundaries to contain our nationalities. Man did. God didn’t draw up religious barriers to separate us from each other. Man did. And on top of that, no father would like to see his children fighting or killing each other. The Creator favors the man who spreads loves over the man who spreads hate. A religious title does not make anyone more superior over another. If a kind man stands by his conscience and exhibits truth in his words and actions, he will stand by God regardless of his faith. If mankind wants to evolve, we must learn from our past mistakes. If not, our technology will evolve without us.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory. If it be sought, that others may take notice of it, and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then damnable pride; if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification.
- Jonathan Edwards
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
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religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.
- Regis Debray
Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
- Margaret Atwood
The Year of the Flood
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The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he abandons abstract speculation and reverts to a mode of response that becomes increasingly cautious and conservative as the forces he hopes to subdue, or at least to outrun, draw ever nearer.
- René Girard
Violence and the Sacred
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Prayer opens the door
For God to work in our lives
Prayer is to be our first
Response to everything
When you start your day
Give Him your first words
Give Him your first moment
- Louise Bélanger
Your Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.
- Isabel Allende
Mi país inventado: Un paseo nostálgico por Chile
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At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
- Banksy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.
- Mary Griffith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Two or three angels
Came near to the earth.
They saw a fat church.
Little black streams of people
Came and went in continually.
And the angels were puzzled
To know why the people went thus,
And why they stayed so long within.
- Stephen Crane
The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.
- Michael Polanyi
Meaning
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It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe.
- Chris Hedges
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.
- William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Telling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.
- Jack Gilbert
Collected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.
- Émile Zola
The Joy of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant to know that there's no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who loves you personally. It's not sad to feel that life and the love of your real friends and family is more than enough to make life worth living. Isn't it much sadder to feel that there is a more important love required than the love of the people who have chosen to spend their limited time with you?
- Penn Jillette
God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Christians. They’re determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones.”

The Lady’s face hardened. “This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.
- Brom
The Child Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've never had much use for religion, except when it comes to swearing or begging for mercy.
- Mark Lawrence
The Wheel of Osheim
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.
- Sheldon Vanauken
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.
- Margaret Atwood
Bluebeard's Egg
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are not sheep or cows. God didn’t create fences for us or boundaries to contain our nationalities. Man did. God didn’t draw up religious barriers to separate us from each other. Man did. And on top of that, no father would like to see his children fighting or killing each other. The Creator favors the man who spreads loves over the man who spreads hate. A religious title does not make anyone more superior over another. If a kind man stands by his conscience and exhibits truth in his words and actions, he will stand by God regardless of his faith. If mankind wants to evolve, we must learn from our past mistakes. If not, our technology will evolve without us.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory. If it be sought, that others may take notice of it, and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then damnable pride; if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification.
- Jonathan Edwards
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.
- Regis Debray
Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
- Margaret Atwood
The Year of the Flood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he abandons abstract speculation and reverts to a mode of response that becomes increasingly cautious and conservative as the forces he hopes to subdue, or at least to outrun, draw ever nearer.
- René Girard
Violence and the Sacred
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Prayer opens the door
For God to work in our lives
Prayer is to be our first
Response to everything
When you start your day
Give Him your first words
Give Him your first moment
- Louise Bélanger
Your Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.
- Isabel Allende
Mi país inventado: Un paseo nostálgico por Chile
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
- Banksy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.
- Mary Griffith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Two or three angels
Came near to the earth.
They saw a fat church.
Little black streams of people
Came and went in continually.
And the angels were puzzled
To know why the people went thus,
And why they stayed so long within.
- Stephen Crane
The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.
- Michael Polanyi
Meaning
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It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe.
- Chris Hedges
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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