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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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If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.
- Flemming Rose
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Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
- Mercedes Lackey
Changes
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They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.
- Deb Caletti
The Nature of Jade
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What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
- Soren Kieregaaard
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Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
- John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent
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When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?
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The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
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I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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Jehovah's Witness are welcomed into my home...You gotta respect anybody who gets all dressed up in Sunday clothes and goes door-to-door on days so hot their high heels sink a half-inch into the pavement.

The trick is to do all the talking yourself. Pretty soon, they'll look at their watches and say, 'Speaking of end times, wouldja look at what time it is now!
- Celia Rivenbark
Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments
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To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots - it's biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen is one of Satan's favorite tricks. He conceals the authentic. He has a persistent strategy of targeting those who remind him of Christianity because he fears those who remind him of Christ.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?
- Jodi Picoult
Change of Heart
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I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing.
- Bertrand Russell
Sceptical Essays
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There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
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We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
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There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas that she did not believe either in hell or in ghosts. Hell she thought was merely an invention got up by the priest to keep people good; and ghosts would not be permitted, she held, to go 'trapsin about the earth' at their own free will; 'but there are faeries,' she added, 'and little leprechauns, and water-horses, and fallen angels.' I have met also a man with a mohawk Indian tattooed upon his arm, who held exactly similar beliefs and unbeliefs. No matter what one doubts one never doubts the faeries, for, as the man with the mohawk Indian on his arm said to me, 'they stand to reason.' Even the official mind does not escape this faith. ("Reason and Unreason")
- W.B. Yeats
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
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I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.
- Hannah Harrington
Saving June
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Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
- Flannery O'Connor
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists
- Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
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It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
- Margaret Mead
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All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.
- Thomas Paine
The Writing of Thomas Paine
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One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.
- Nick Hornby
Juliet, Naked
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All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!
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This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then what would be a rainbow with only one color? Or a garden with only one kind of flower? Why would the Creator create a vast assortment of plants, ethnicities, and animals, if only one beast or seed is to dominate all of existence?
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.
- Flemming Rose
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Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
- Mercedes Lackey
Changes
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They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.
- Deb Caletti
The Nature of Jade
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What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
- Soren Kieregaaard
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Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
- John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent
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When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
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I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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Jehovah's Witness are welcomed into my home...You gotta respect anybody who gets all dressed up in Sunday clothes and goes door-to-door on days so hot their high heels sink a half-inch into the pavement.

The trick is to do all the talking yourself. Pretty soon, they'll look at their watches and say, 'Speaking of end times, wouldja look at what time it is now!
- Celia Rivenbark
Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments
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To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots - it's biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen is one of Satan's favorite tricks. He conceals the authentic. He has a persistent strategy of targeting those who remind him of Christianity because he fears those who remind him of Christ.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?
- Jodi Picoult
Change of Heart
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I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing.
- Bertrand Russell
Sceptical Essays
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There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas that she did not believe either in hell or in ghosts. Hell she thought was merely an invention got up by the priest to keep people good; and ghosts would not be permitted, she held, to go 'trapsin about the earth' at their own free will; 'but there are faeries,' she added, 'and little leprechauns, and water-horses, and fallen angels.' I have met also a man with a mohawk Indian tattooed upon his arm, who held exactly similar beliefs and unbeliefs. No matter what one doubts one never doubts the faeries, for, as the man with the mohawk Indian on his arm said to me, 'they stand to reason.' Even the official mind does not escape this faith. ("Reason and Unreason")
- W.B. Yeats
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
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I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.
- Hannah Harrington
Saving June
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Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
- Flannery O'Connor
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists
- Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
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It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
- Margaret Mead
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All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.
- Thomas Paine
The Writing of Thomas Paine
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One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.
- Nick Hornby
Juliet, Naked
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All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!
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This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then what would be a rainbow with only one color? Or a garden with only one kind of flower? Why would the Creator create a vast assortment of plants, ethnicities, and animals, if only one beast or seed is to dominate all of existence?
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.
- Flemming Rose
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Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
- Mercedes Lackey
Changes
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They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.
- Deb Caletti
The Nature of Jade
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
- Soren Kieregaaard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
- John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Jehovah's Witness are welcomed into my home...You gotta respect anybody who gets all dressed up in Sunday clothes and goes door-to-door on days so hot their high heels sink a half-inch into the pavement.

The trick is to do all the talking yourself. Pretty soon, they'll look at their watches and say, 'Speaking of end times, wouldja look at what time it is now!
- Celia Rivenbark
Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots - it's biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen is one of Satan's favorite tricks. He conceals the authentic. He has a persistent strategy of targeting those who remind him of Christianity because he fears those who remind him of Christ.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?
- Jodi Picoult
Change of Heart
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I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing.
- Bertrand Russell
Sceptical Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas that she did not believe either in hell or in ghosts. Hell she thought was merely an invention got up by the priest to keep people good; and ghosts would not be permitted, she held, to go 'trapsin about the earth' at their own free will; 'but there are faeries,' she added, 'and little leprechauns, and water-horses, and fallen angels.' I have met also a man with a mohawk Indian tattooed upon his arm, who held exactly similar beliefs and unbeliefs. No matter what one doubts one never doubts the faeries, for, as the man with the mohawk Indian on his arm said to me, 'they stand to reason.' Even the official mind does not escape this faith. ("Reason and Unreason")
- W.B. Yeats
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.
- Hannah Harrington
Saving June
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
- Flannery O'Connor
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists
- Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
- Margaret Mead
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.
- Thomas Paine
The Writing of Thomas Paine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.
- Nick Hornby
Juliet, Naked
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then what would be a rainbow with only one color? Or a garden with only one kind of flower? Why would the Creator create a vast assortment of plants, ethnicities, and animals, if only one beast or seed is to dominate all of existence?
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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