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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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It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.
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In order to know who you are you need to know God is.
- Annette Hoggs-Jackson
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
- Frederick Buechner
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People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
- Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Religion is the opium of the poor
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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
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To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
- Theodore Dalrymple
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I dreamt of worldly success once.
- Miyamoto Musashi
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In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.
- Jethro Tull
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It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Anyone who claims, on the one hand, that he is concerned with human welfare, and who demands, on the other hand, that man must suspend or renounce the use of his reason, is contradicting himself.

There can be no knowledge of what is good for man apart from knowledge of reality and human nature, and there is no manner in which this knowledge can be acquired except through reason. To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.
- George H. Smith
Atheism: The Case Against God
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He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
- Henry Miller
The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud
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There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
- Erich Fromm
Psychoanalysis and Religion
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Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
- John Piper
The Passion of Jesus Christ
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God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.
- Henry B. Eyring
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Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
When We Were Orphans
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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.
- Mark Twain
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
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I have church on Sunday.”
“Of course you do.”
“You’re welcome to come along.”
“Thanks, but I’m allergic to incense.”
“That’s a shame.”
“It’s the bane of my existence.”
- Beth and Jake
- Alexandra Adornetto
Halo
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It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
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Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.
- Colin Wilson
The Occult
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Your religion should help you make the decision if you find yourself in that situation, but the policy should exist for you to have the right to make it in the first place.

When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because YOUR religion forbids it, that's a problem.
- Jodi Picoult
A Spark of Light
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Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.
- Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass
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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
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I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?
- Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles
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Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It's deliberately limited. It won't function with the materials of religion. You can come close to proving the existence of God by reason, but you can't do it absolutely. That's because you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. God is a postulate. I don't think God is interested in the verification of His existence, and, therefore, neither am I. Anyway, I have professional reasons to believe. Nature and art pivot faithfully around God. Even dogs know that.
- Mark Helprin
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It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.
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In order to know who you are you need to know God is.
- Annette Hoggs-Jackson
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
- Frederick Buechner
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People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
- Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Religion is the opium of the poor
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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
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To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
- Theodore Dalrymple
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I dreamt of worldly success once.
- Miyamoto Musashi
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In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.
- Jethro Tull
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It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Anyone who claims, on the one hand, that he is concerned with human welfare, and who demands, on the other hand, that man must suspend or renounce the use of his reason, is contradicting himself.

There can be no knowledge of what is good for man apart from knowledge of reality and human nature, and there is no manner in which this knowledge can be acquired except through reason. To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.
- George H. Smith
Atheism: The Case Against God
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He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
- Henry Miller
The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud
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There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
- Erich Fromm
Psychoanalysis and Religion
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Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
- John Piper
The Passion of Jesus Christ
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God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.
- Henry B. Eyring
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Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
When We Were Orphans
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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.
- Mark Twain
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
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I have church on Sunday.”
“Of course you do.”
“You’re welcome to come along.”
“Thanks, but I’m allergic to incense.”
“That’s a shame.”
“It’s the bane of my existence.”
- Beth and Jake
- Alexandra Adornetto
Halo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.
- Colin Wilson
The Occult
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your religion should help you make the decision if you find yourself in that situation, but the policy should exist for you to have the right to make it in the first place.

When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because YOUR religion forbids it, that's a problem.
- Jodi Picoult
A Spark of Light
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.
- Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass
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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?
- Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles
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Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It's deliberately limited. It won't function with the materials of religion. You can come close to proving the existence of God by reason, but you can't do it absolutely. That's because you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. God is a postulate. I don't think God is interested in the verification of His existence, and, therefore, neither am I. Anyway, I have professional reasons to believe. Nature and art pivot faithfully around God. Even dogs know that.
- Mark Helprin
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It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In order to know who you are you need to know God is.
- Annette Hoggs-Jackson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
- Frederick Buechner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
- Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion is the opium of the poor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
- Theodore Dalrymple
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I dreamt of worldly success once.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.
- Jethro Tull
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Anyone who claims, on the one hand, that he is concerned with human welfare, and who demands, on the other hand, that man must suspend or renounce the use of his reason, is contradicting himself.

There can be no knowledge of what is good for man apart from knowledge of reality and human nature, and there is no manner in which this knowledge can be acquired except through reason. To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.
- George H. Smith
Atheism: The Case Against God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
- Henry Miller
The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
- Erich Fromm
Psychoanalysis and Religion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
- John Piper
The Passion of Jesus Christ
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.
- Henry B. Eyring
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
When We Were Orphans
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.
- Mark Twain
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have church on Sunday.”
“Of course you do.”
“You’re welcome to come along.”
“Thanks, but I’m allergic to incense.”
“That’s a shame.”
“It’s the bane of my existence.”
- Beth and Jake
- Alexandra Adornetto
Halo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.
- Colin Wilson
The Occult
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your religion should help you make the decision if you find yourself in that situation, but the policy should exist for you to have the right to make it in the first place.

When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because YOUR religion forbids it, that's a problem.
- Jodi Picoult
A Spark of Light
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.
- Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?
- Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It's deliberately limited. It won't function with the materials of religion. You can come close to proving the existence of God by reason, but you can't do it absolutely. That's because you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. God is a postulate. I don't think God is interested in the verification of His existence, and, therefore, neither am I. Anyway, I have professional reasons to believe. Nature and art pivot faithfully around God. Even dogs know that.
- Mark Helprin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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