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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 I told you to wish for good health, you would think I'm ridiculous; but when I exchange the word "wish" for the word "pray", you believe it can work. That is the disempowering delusion religions have brought us.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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The Tezuman Empire in the jungle valleys of central Klatch is known for it organic market gardens, its exquisite craftsmanship in obsidian, feathers and jade, and its mass human sacrifices in honor of Quezovercoatl, the Feathered Boa, god of mass human sacrifices.
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The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion.

He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain him, especially the one called 'Christianity'.
- Rob Bell
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
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Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our place in it.
- Stephen H. Furrer
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Bliss and suffering, it seems, always go hand in hand.
- Kentetsu Takamori
You Were Born for a Reason: The Real Purpose of Life
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You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts but love freely lavished from a heart familiar with the gardens of heaven.
- Amy Layne Litzelman
This Beloved Road: A Journey of Revelation and Worship
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Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
- Karl Rahner
The Need and the Blessing of Prayer
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the divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals.
- Dean Koontz
What the Night Knows
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Praise be to God, Who has so disposed matters that pleasant literary anecdotes may serve as an instrument for the polishing of wits and the cleansing of rust from our hearts.
- Ahmad Al-Tifashi
The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book
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There is no great religion without a great schism. All of them have it. And that's because you're dealing with something called faith. And faith is not something you can prove; faith is personal opinion. Uh, when you're dealing with something with certainty, like, y'know, science or logic, you don't have the--there's no wiggle room; that's why history is not filled with warring math cults, y'know, because you can settle the issue; you can prove something to be right or wrong, and that's the end of the argument: next case. Whereas, when you're dealing with faith, you can forever argue your point, or another point, because you're dealing with intangibles. Personally, I think, faith is what you ask of somebody when you don't have the goods to prove your point.
- Tom Quinn
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The earth is but one country and Mankind its citizens.
- Baha'u'llah
Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah
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She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When she found that the theosophy she had developed for communication with a dead husband was not necessary, she cast about for some new unhappiness.
- John Steinbeck
East of Eden
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Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy.
- Isabel Allende
Mi país inventado: Un paseo nostálgico por Chile
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He saw a cross on a wall with another cross behind it, a shadow cross, the shadow of what God left behind when God was gone, the continued need for joy and beauty, a commitment to hope where there appeared to be none, and to grace in spite of everything.
- Richard Rayner
The Cloud Sketcher
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They say women have no conscience about laws, don't they?" Mrs. MacAvelly suggested.

"Why should we?" answered her friend. "We don't make 'em—nor God—nor nature. Why on earth should we respect a set of silly rules made by some men one day and changed by some more the next?"

(from According to Solomon)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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As we have said before, for religious man nature is never only natural. Experience of a radically desacralized nature is a recent discovery; moreover, it is an experience accessible only to a minority in modem societies, especially to scientists. For others, nature still exhibits a charm, a mystery, a majesty in which it is possible to decipher traces of ancient religious values. No modern man, however irreligious, is entirely insensible to the charms of nature. We refer not only to the esthetic, recreational, or hygienic values attributed to nature, but also to a confused and almost indefinable feeling, in which, however, it is possible to recognize the memory of a debased religious experience.
- Mircea Eliade
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
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Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people; before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children; before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about it through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I’m not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.
- Cory Booker
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A new country seems to follow a pattern. First come the openers, strong and brave and rather childlike. They can take care of themselves in a wilderness, but they are naive and helpless against men, and perhaps that is why they went out in the first place. When the rough edges are worn off the new land, businessmen and lawyers come in to help with the development---to solve problems of ownership, usually by removing the temptations to themselves. And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living. And culture can be on any level, and is.

The Church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously.
- John Steinbeck
East of Eden
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I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.
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Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Beyond Tragedy: Essays on the Christian Interpretation of History
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I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do.
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An institution is right or it is wrong. One that cannot accept dinosaur bones is one that cannot be trusted on more important matters.
- Fletcher Wortmann
Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.
- Thomm Quackenbush
We Shadows
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If I told you to wish for good health, you would think I'm ridiculous; but when I exchange the word "wish" for the word "pray", you believe it can work. That is the disempowering delusion religions have brought us.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Tezuman Empire in the jungle valleys of central Klatch is known for it organic market gardens, its exquisite craftsmanship in obsidian, feathers and jade, and its mass human sacrifices in honor of Quezovercoatl, the Feathered Boa, god of mass human sacrifices.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion.

He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain him, especially the one called 'Christianity'.
- Rob Bell
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our place in it.
- Stephen H. Furrer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bliss and suffering, it seems, always go hand in hand.
- Kentetsu Takamori
You Were Born for a Reason: The Real Purpose of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts but love freely lavished from a heart familiar with the gardens of heaven.
- Amy Layne Litzelman
This Beloved Road: A Journey of Revelation and Worship
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
- Karl Rahner
The Need and the Blessing of Prayer
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the divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals.
- Dean Koontz
What the Night Knows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Praise be to God, Who has so disposed matters that pleasant literary anecdotes may serve as an instrument for the polishing of wits and the cleansing of rust from our hearts.
- Ahmad Al-Tifashi
The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no great religion without a great schism. All of them have it. And that's because you're dealing with something called faith. And faith is not something you can prove; faith is personal opinion. Uh, when you're dealing with something with certainty, like, y'know, science or logic, you don't have the--there's no wiggle room; that's why history is not filled with warring math cults, y'know, because you can settle the issue; you can prove something to be right or wrong, and that's the end of the argument: next case. Whereas, when you're dealing with faith, you can forever argue your point, or another point, because you're dealing with intangibles. Personally, I think, faith is what you ask of somebody when you don't have the goods to prove your point.
- Tom Quinn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The earth is but one country and Mankind its citizens.
- Baha'u'llah
Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When she found that the theosophy she had developed for communication with a dead husband was not necessary, she cast about for some new unhappiness.
- John Steinbeck
East of Eden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy.
- Isabel Allende
Mi país inventado: Un paseo nostálgico por Chile
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He saw a cross on a wall with another cross behind it, a shadow cross, the shadow of what God left behind when God was gone, the continued need for joy and beauty, a commitment to hope where there appeared to be none, and to grace in spite of everything.
- Richard Rayner
The Cloud Sketcher
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They say women have no conscience about laws, don't they?" Mrs. MacAvelly suggested.

"Why should we?" answered her friend. "We don't make 'em—nor God—nor nature. Why on earth should we respect a set of silly rules made by some men one day and changed by some more the next?"

(from According to Solomon)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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As we have said before, for religious man nature is never only natural. Experience of a radically desacralized nature is a recent discovery; moreover, it is an experience accessible only to a minority in modem societies, especially to scientists. For others, nature still exhibits a charm, a mystery, a majesty in which it is possible to decipher traces of ancient religious values. No modern man, however irreligious, is entirely insensible to the charms of nature. We refer not only to the esthetic, recreational, or hygienic values attributed to nature, but also to a confused and almost indefinable feeling, in which, however, it is possible to recognize the memory of a debased religious experience.
- Mircea Eliade
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
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Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people; before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children; before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about it through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I’m not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.
- Cory Booker
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A new country seems to follow a pattern. First come the openers, strong and brave and rather childlike. They can take care of themselves in a wilderness, but they are naive and helpless against men, and perhaps that is why they went out in the first place. When the rough edges are worn off the new land, businessmen and lawyers come in to help with the development---to solve problems of ownership, usually by removing the temptations to themselves. And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living. And culture can be on any level, and is.

The Church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously.
- John Steinbeck
East of Eden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Beyond Tragedy: Essays on the Christian Interpretation of History
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An institution is right or it is wrong. One that cannot accept dinosaur bones is one that cannot be trusted on more important matters.
- Fletcher Wortmann
Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.
- Thomm Quackenbush
We Shadows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If I told you to wish for good health, you would think I'm ridiculous; but when I exchange the word "wish" for the word "pray", you believe it can work. That is the disempowering delusion religions have brought us.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Tezuman Empire in the jungle valleys of central Klatch is known for it organic market gardens, its exquisite craftsmanship in obsidian, feathers and jade, and its mass human sacrifices in honor of Quezovercoatl, the Feathered Boa, god of mass human sacrifices.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion.

He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain him, especially the one called 'Christianity'.
- Rob Bell
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our place in it.
- Stephen H. Furrer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bliss and suffering, it seems, always go hand in hand.
- Kentetsu Takamori
You Were Born for a Reason: The Real Purpose of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts but love freely lavished from a heart familiar with the gardens of heaven.
- Amy Layne Litzelman
This Beloved Road: A Journey of Revelation and Worship
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
- Karl Rahner
The Need and the Blessing of Prayer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
the divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals.
- Dean Koontz
What the Night Knows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Praise be to God, Who has so disposed matters that pleasant literary anecdotes may serve as an instrument for the polishing of wits and the cleansing of rust from our hearts.
- Ahmad Al-Tifashi
The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no great religion without a great schism. All of them have it. And that's because you're dealing with something called faith. And faith is not something you can prove; faith is personal opinion. Uh, when you're dealing with something with certainty, like, y'know, science or logic, you don't have the--there's no wiggle room; that's why history is not filled with warring math cults, y'know, because you can settle the issue; you can prove something to be right or wrong, and that's the end of the argument: next case. Whereas, when you're dealing with faith, you can forever argue your point, or another point, because you're dealing with intangibles. Personally, I think, faith is what you ask of somebody when you don't have the goods to prove your point.
- Tom Quinn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The earth is but one country and Mankind its citizens.
- Baha'u'llah
Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When she found that the theosophy she had developed for communication with a dead husband was not necessary, she cast about for some new unhappiness.
- John Steinbeck
East of Eden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy.
- Isabel Allende
Mi país inventado: Un paseo nostálgico por Chile
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He saw a cross on a wall with another cross behind it, a shadow cross, the shadow of what God left behind when God was gone, the continued need for joy and beauty, a commitment to hope where there appeared to be none, and to grace in spite of everything.
- Richard Rayner
The Cloud Sketcher
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They say women have no conscience about laws, don't they?" Mrs. MacAvelly suggested.

"Why should we?" answered her friend. "We don't make 'em—nor God—nor nature. Why on earth should we respect a set of silly rules made by some men one day and changed by some more the next?"

(from According to Solomon)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As we have said before, for religious man nature is never only natural. Experience of a radically desacralized nature is a recent discovery; moreover, it is an experience accessible only to a minority in modem societies, especially to scientists. For others, nature still exhibits a charm, a mystery, a majesty in which it is possible to decipher traces of ancient religious values. No modern man, however irreligious, is entirely insensible to the charms of nature. We refer not only to the esthetic, recreational, or hygienic values attributed to nature, but also to a confused and almost indefinable feeling, in which, however, it is possible to recognize the memory of a debased religious experience.
- Mircea Eliade
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people; before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children; before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about it through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I’m not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.
- Cory Booker
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A new country seems to follow a pattern. First come the openers, strong and brave and rather childlike. They can take care of themselves in a wilderness, but they are naive and helpless against men, and perhaps that is why they went out in the first place. When the rough edges are worn off the new land, businessmen and lawyers come in to help with the development---to solve problems of ownership, usually by removing the temptations to themselves. And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living. And culture can be on any level, and is.

The Church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously.
- John Steinbeck
East of Eden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Beyond Tragedy: Essays on the Christian Interpretation of History
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An institution is right or it is wrong. One that cannot accept dinosaur bones is one that cannot be trusted on more important matters.
- Fletcher Wortmann
Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.
- Thomm Quackenbush
We Shadows
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