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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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To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.
- David James Duncan
God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
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God goes with thoughtless people.
- Robert Walser
Jakob von Gunten
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The disciples of Jesus “found themselves thinking that if divine goodness were to manifest itself in human form, this (he) is how it would behave… he invited people to see differently instead of telling them what to do or believe…he located the authority of his teaching in his hearer’s hearts, not in himself or God-as-removed.
- Huston Smith
The World's Religions
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The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking it literally. The Bible does not present us with material that is ridiculous in the context from which it came. The Bible springs from the context in which people then were thinking, searching, and trying to find answers .
- Robert Alley
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Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes discredited - and indeed the threat to it is great enough - then your world collapses. There is nothing left for you but to despair of everything, of civilization and the future of mankind. From that bondage I am, we are, free. Since we are prepared to renounce a good part of our infantile wishes, we can bear it if a few of our expectations turn out to be illusions.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
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He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say.
- Dan Brown
Angels & Demons
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Maybe we should Create a 'Happy God Day' and make it the one day of the year you can't kill each other.
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To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability…. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.
- Francis Collins
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On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
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I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can elevate myself to the standards I have imposed on others.
- Mike Corbett
Laughter of the Damned
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But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable news. I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
- Sarah Vowell
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Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.
- Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume
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Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
- Bill Gaede
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But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.
- Jonathan Edwards
The Religious Affections
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Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.
- David Norton
The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today
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La libertad nos mantiene volando alto, pero la contienda destruye nuestra habilidad de volar.
- Victor Manuel Rivera
En Busca de la Verdadera Libertad
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No es saber sino vivir.
- Victor Manuel Rivera
En Busca de la Verdadera Libertad
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Whereas cognitive constraints on negative emotions can reduce distress, freeing positive emotions from such constraints can enhance religious experience.
- Gerald L. Clore
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The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives.
- John A. Widtsoe
Rational Theology
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A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in regard to any great scheme, religious or political, that set out to create universal happiness in one fell swoop; what it was more likely to create, in his opinion, was universal misery; and his faith in heaven-sent saviors was hardly greater.
- Francois Maspero
Cat's Grin
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
- Garry Marshall
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On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.
- Jean Paul
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The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition.
- Al Masudi
From The Meadows of Gold
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Charakter ist Schicksal. Historie ist Gott.
- J.M. Coetzee
In the Heart of the Country
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To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.
- David James Duncan
God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
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God goes with thoughtless people.
- Robert Walser
Jakob von Gunten
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The disciples of Jesus “found themselves thinking that if divine goodness were to manifest itself in human form, this (he) is how it would behave… he invited people to see differently instead of telling them what to do or believe…he located the authority of his teaching in his hearer’s hearts, not in himself or God-as-removed.
- Huston Smith
The World's Religions
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The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking it literally. The Bible does not present us with material that is ridiculous in the context from which it came. The Bible springs from the context in which people then were thinking, searching, and trying to find answers .
- Robert Alley
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Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes discredited - and indeed the threat to it is great enough - then your world collapses. There is nothing left for you but to despair of everything, of civilization and the future of mankind. From that bondage I am, we are, free. Since we are prepared to renounce a good part of our infantile wishes, we can bear it if a few of our expectations turn out to be illusions.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
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He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say.
- Dan Brown
Angels & Demons
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Maybe we should Create a 'Happy God Day' and make it the one day of the year you can't kill each other.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability…. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.
- Francis Collins
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On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
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I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can elevate myself to the standards I have imposed on others.
- Mike Corbett
Laughter of the Damned
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But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable news. I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
- Sarah Vowell
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Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.
- Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume
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Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
- Bill Gaede
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But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.
- Jonathan Edwards
The Religious Affections
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.
- David Norton
The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
La libertad nos mantiene volando alto, pero la contienda destruye nuestra habilidad de volar.
- Victor Manuel Rivera
En Busca de la Verdadera Libertad
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No es saber sino vivir.
- Victor Manuel Rivera
En Busca de la Verdadera Libertad
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whereas cognitive constraints on negative emotions can reduce distress, freeing positive emotions from such constraints can enhance religious experience.
- Gerald L. Clore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives.
- John A. Widtsoe
Rational Theology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in regard to any great scheme, religious or political, that set out to create universal happiness in one fell swoop; what it was more likely to create, in his opinion, was universal misery; and his faith in heaven-sent saviors was hardly greater.
- Francois Maspero
Cat's Grin
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
- Garry Marshall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.
- Jean Paul
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The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition.
- Al Masudi
From The Meadows of Gold
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Charakter ist Schicksal. Historie ist Gott.
- J.M. Coetzee
In the Heart of the Country
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To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.
- David James Duncan
God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God goes with thoughtless people.
- Robert Walser
Jakob von Gunten
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The disciples of Jesus “found themselves thinking that if divine goodness were to manifest itself in human form, this (he) is how it would behave… he invited people to see differently instead of telling them what to do or believe…he located the authority of his teaching in his hearer’s hearts, not in himself or God-as-removed.
- Huston Smith
The World's Religions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking it literally. The Bible does not present us with material that is ridiculous in the context from which it came. The Bible springs from the context in which people then were thinking, searching, and trying to find answers .
- Robert Alley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes discredited - and indeed the threat to it is great enough - then your world collapses. There is nothing left for you but to despair of everything, of civilization and the future of mankind. From that bondage I am, we are, free. Since we are prepared to renounce a good part of our infantile wishes, we can bear it if a few of our expectations turn out to be illusions.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say.
- Dan Brown
Angels & Demons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe we should Create a 'Happy God Day' and make it the one day of the year you can't kill each other.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability…. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.
- Francis Collins
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can elevate myself to the standards I have imposed on others.
- Mike Corbett
Laughter of the Damned
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable news. I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
- Sarah Vowell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.
- Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
- Bill Gaede
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.
- Jonathan Edwards
The Religious Affections
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.
- David Norton
The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
La libertad nos mantiene volando alto, pero la contienda destruye nuestra habilidad de volar.
- Victor Manuel Rivera
En Busca de la Verdadera Libertad
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No es saber sino vivir.
- Victor Manuel Rivera
En Busca de la Verdadera Libertad
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whereas cognitive constraints on negative emotions can reduce distress, freeing positive emotions from such constraints can enhance religious experience.
- Gerald L. Clore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives.
- John A. Widtsoe
Rational Theology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in regard to any great scheme, religious or political, that set out to create universal happiness in one fell swoop; what it was more likely to create, in his opinion, was universal misery; and his faith in heaven-sent saviors was hardly greater.
- Francois Maspero
Cat's Grin
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
- Garry Marshall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.
- Jean Paul
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition.
- Al Masudi
From The Meadows of Gold
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Charakter ist Schicksal. Historie ist Gott.
- J.M. Coetzee
In the Heart of the Country
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