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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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I don't want you to think me as a heathen, Mr C; I've had enough experience to know that there is a God and that there is a Devil. But the way to tame the Devil is not to go down there to church and listen to what a sinful mean fool he is. No, love the Devil like you love Jesus; because he is a powerful man, and will do you a good turn if he knows you trust him.
- Truman Capote
Children On Their Birthdays
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We create idols, a kind of escapism, instead of leaning into true hope.
We desire to wait for love, but we end up seeking a counterfeit instead.
The art of waiting depends upon our willingness to die to ourselves and trust in God. Art, poetry, and music all depend on waiting. There is no music without pauses. There is no art if we are unwilling to wait for paint to dry.
- Makato Fujioka
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It's too late to be careful." Chap36 Page249
- Sierra Simone
Saint
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Religion has invented that wonderful thing called charity. It is the most vicious and vulgar thing that we have done. Nature has provided us with a bounty. But we are individually responsible for the inequities of the world.
- U.G. Krishnamurti
Thought is Your Enemy: Mind-Shattering Conversations with the Man Called U.G.
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The comfort of religion is like morphine: blissful, addictive, and built on the promise of escape from pain it helped create
- Abyssino
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Live gently, seek depth, and never trade your silence for the illusion of certainty.
- Marcus Viveiro
In the Quiet - On Logic, Spirit, and the Discipline of Living Without Certainty: Agnosticism, Deism, Stoicism and the Spiritual Discipline
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My mother has taken an interest in utopian texts, now that Florida seems to be heading in the opposite direction, though every time she describes one of these alleged paradises they sound a little terrifying. Too much manual labor and religious fervor. In the end, my mother often seems disappointed by these utopias too; she is still searching for her true north.
- Laura van den Berg
State of Paradise
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)
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Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?
- Allyson Braithwaite Condie
First Day
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Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.
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The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
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We are gods with anuses.
- Ernest Becker
The Denial of Death
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It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
- David Hume
A Treatise of Human Nature
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Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.
- Siddhartha Gautama
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A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
- Richard K. Morgan
Broken Angels
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As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human
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A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?
- Margaret Atwood
Der blinde Mörder
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Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
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When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.
- John O'Donohue
Beauty: The Invisible Embrace – A Spiritual Homecoming Through Celtic Traditions, Art, Music, and Divine Grace
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First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yathābhūtam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.
- Walpola Rahula
What the Buddha Taught
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BLACK AND WHITE


I was born into
A religion of Light,
But with so many other
Religions and
Philosophies,
How do I know which
ONE
Is right?

Is it not
My birthright
To seek out the light?
To find Truth
After surveying all the proof,
Am I supposed
To love
Or fight?
And why do all those who
Try to guide me,
Always start by dividing
And multiplying me –
From what they consider
Wrong or right?
I thought,
There were no walls
For whoever beams truth and light.
And how can one speak on Light's behalf,
lf all they do
Is act black,
But talk WHITE?
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
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An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
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I don't want you to think me as a heathen, Mr C; I've had enough experience to know that there is a God and that there is a Devil. But the way to tame the Devil is not to go down there to church and listen to what a sinful mean fool he is. No, love the Devil like you love Jesus; because he is a powerful man, and will do you a good turn if he knows you trust him.
- Truman Capote
Children On Their Birthdays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We create idols, a kind of escapism, instead of leaning into true hope.
We desire to wait for love, but we end up seeking a counterfeit instead.
The art of waiting depends upon our willingness to die to ourselves and trust in God. Art, poetry, and music all depend on waiting. There is no music without pauses. There is no art if we are unwilling to wait for paint to dry.
- Makato Fujioka
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's too late to be careful." Chap36 Page249
- Sierra Simone
Saint
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion has invented that wonderful thing called charity. It is the most vicious and vulgar thing that we have done. Nature has provided us with a bounty. But we are individually responsible for the inequities of the world.
- U.G. Krishnamurti
Thought is Your Enemy: Mind-Shattering Conversations with the Man Called U.G.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The comfort of religion is like morphine: blissful, addictive, and built on the promise of escape from pain it helped create
- Abyssino
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Live gently, seek depth, and never trade your silence for the illusion of certainty.
- Marcus Viveiro
In the Quiet - On Logic, Spirit, and the Discipline of Living Without Certainty: Agnosticism, Deism, Stoicism and the Spiritual Discipline
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My mother has taken an interest in utopian texts, now that Florida seems to be heading in the opposite direction, though every time she describes one of these alleged paradises they sound a little terrifying. Too much manual labor and religious fervor. In the end, my mother often seems disappointed by these utopias too; she is still searching for her true north.
- Laura van den Berg
State of Paradise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?
- Allyson Braithwaite Condie
First Day
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are gods with anuses.
- Ernest Becker
The Denial of Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
- David Hume
A Treatise of Human Nature
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.
- Siddhartha Gautama
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
- Richard K. Morgan
Broken Angels
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?
- Margaret Atwood
Der blinde Mörder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.
- John O'Donohue
Beauty: The Invisible Embrace – A Spiritual Homecoming Through Celtic Traditions, Art, Music, and Divine Grace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yathābhūtam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.
- Walpola Rahula
What the Buddha Taught
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
BLACK AND WHITE


I was born into
A religion of Light,
But with so many other
Religions and
Philosophies,
How do I know which
ONE
Is right?

Is it not
My birthright
To seek out the light?
To find Truth
After surveying all the proof,
Am I supposed
To love
Or fight?
And why do all those who
Try to guide me,
Always start by dividing
And multiplying me –
From what they consider
Wrong or right?
I thought,
There were no walls
For whoever beams truth and light.
And how can one speak on Light's behalf,
lf all they do
Is act black,
But talk WHITE?
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't want you to think me as a heathen, Mr C; I've had enough experience to know that there is a God and that there is a Devil. But the way to tame the Devil is not to go down there to church and listen to what a sinful mean fool he is. No, love the Devil like you love Jesus; because he is a powerful man, and will do you a good turn if he knows you trust him.
- Truman Capote
Children On Their Birthdays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We create idols, a kind of escapism, instead of leaning into true hope.
We desire to wait for love, but we end up seeking a counterfeit instead.
The art of waiting depends upon our willingness to die to ourselves and trust in God. Art, poetry, and music all depend on waiting. There is no music without pauses. There is no art if we are unwilling to wait for paint to dry.
- Makato Fujioka
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's too late to be careful." Chap36 Page249
- Sierra Simone
Saint
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion has invented that wonderful thing called charity. It is the most vicious and vulgar thing that we have done. Nature has provided us with a bounty. But we are individually responsible for the inequities of the world.
- U.G. Krishnamurti
Thought is Your Enemy: Mind-Shattering Conversations with the Man Called U.G.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The comfort of religion is like morphine: blissful, addictive, and built on the promise of escape from pain it helped create
- Abyssino
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Live gently, seek depth, and never trade your silence for the illusion of certainty.
- Marcus Viveiro
In the Quiet - On Logic, Spirit, and the Discipline of Living Without Certainty: Agnosticism, Deism, Stoicism and the Spiritual Discipline
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My mother has taken an interest in utopian texts, now that Florida seems to be heading in the opposite direction, though every time she describes one of these alleged paradises they sound a little terrifying. Too much manual labor and religious fervor. In the end, my mother often seems disappointed by these utopias too; she is still searching for her true north.
- Laura van den Berg
State of Paradise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?
- Allyson Braithwaite Condie
First Day
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are gods with anuses.
- Ernest Becker
The Denial of Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
- David Hume
A Treatise of Human Nature
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.
- Siddhartha Gautama
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
- Richard K. Morgan
Broken Angels
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?
- Margaret Atwood
Der blinde Mörder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.
- John O'Donohue
Beauty: The Invisible Embrace – A Spiritual Homecoming Through Celtic Traditions, Art, Music, and Divine Grace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yathābhūtam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.
- Walpola Rahula
What the Buddha Taught
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
BLACK AND WHITE


I was born into
A religion of Light,
But with so many other
Religions and
Philosophies,
How do I know which
ONE
Is right?

Is it not
My birthright
To seek out the light?
To find Truth
After surveying all the proof,
Am I supposed
To love
Or fight?
And why do all those who
Try to guide me,
Always start by dividing
And multiplying me –
From what they consider
Wrong or right?
I thought,
There were no walls
For whoever beams truth and light.
And how can one speak on Light's behalf,
lf all they do
Is act black,
But talk WHITE?
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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