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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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Despite the countless acts of violence that the two had witnessed, and even participated in, over the years, they were still shocked by what they saw.
- Stephen A. Reger
Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
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Science has carried us to the gateway to the universe. And yet our conception of our surroundings remains the disproportionate view of the still-small child. We are spiritually and culturally paralyzed, unable to face the vastness, to embrace our lack of centrality and find our actual place in the fabric of nature. We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go. That we even do science is a hopeful glimmer of mental health. However, it's not enough merely to accept these insights intellectually while we cling to a spiritual ideology that is not only rootless in nature but also, in many ways, contemptuous of what is natural.
- Ann Druyan
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Well, what I don't understand is why people get all dressed up and drive to church so they can sit there and get scolded. Seems to me it'd be a whole lot easier for the to just stay home in their pj's, eat pancakes, and get yelled at over the radion.
- Beth Hoffman
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
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Following religious principles because you fear the consequences isn't faith…. It’s superstition.
- T. Rafael Cimino
A Battle of Angels
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I think it's just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldn't know what to do differently. Everyone just muddles through, trying not to make too many mistakes [...] Half the time we walk around in love with the idea of a thing instead of the reality of it. But sometimes things don't turn out that way. You have to pay attention to what's real, what's in the world. Not some imaginary alternative, as if it's a choice we could make.
- David Wroblewski
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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How do you tell a scribe from a prophet . . .? The prophets love the people they chastise.
- Marylinne Robinson
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those who have loved are those that have found God
- Guru Nanak
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We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.
- Cameron Conaway
Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
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Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.
- C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
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Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened.
- Laurence Moore
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When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlesseness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state.
- Arthur Miller
The Crucible
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God is the name of the blanket we throw over mystery to give it shape.
- Barry Taylor
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But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
- William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Divided & Conquered
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God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates.
- Criss Jami
Healology
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Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.
- Francine Rivers
Redeeming Love
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First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.
- James Clavell
Shōgun
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No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.
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A spirtually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.
- Swami Bhaskarananda
The Essentials of Hinduism: A Comprehensive Overview of the World's Oldest Religion
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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
- David Hume
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion / The Natural History of Religion
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All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.
- Michael Arditti
The Enemy of the Good
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Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts to sea alone, in the darkness of night, beneath a firmament illumined no longer by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope.
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
Against Nature
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Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.
- Brooke Foss Westcott
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As long as we continue to search for enemies anywhere but inside ourselves, there will always be a Middle East problem. Religion is not the solution. Religion without Jesus is just self-righteousness. Freedom from oppression will not resolve things either. Delivered from the oppression of Europe, Israel became the oppressor. Delivered from persecution, Muslims became persecutors. Abused spouses and children often go on to abuse spouses and children. It is a cliché, but it’s still true: hurt people, unless they are healed, hurt people.
- Mosab Hassan Yousef
Son of Hamas
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Despite the countless acts of violence that the two had witnessed, and even participated in, over the years, they were still shocked by what they saw.
- Stephen A. Reger
Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Science has carried us to the gateway to the universe. And yet our conception of our surroundings remains the disproportionate view of the still-small child. We are spiritually and culturally paralyzed, unable to face the vastness, to embrace our lack of centrality and find our actual place in the fabric of nature. We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go. That we even do science is a hopeful glimmer of mental health. However, it's not enough merely to accept these insights intellectually while we cling to a spiritual ideology that is not only rootless in nature but also, in many ways, contemptuous of what is natural.
- Ann Druyan
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Well, what I don't understand is why people get all dressed up and drive to church so they can sit there and get scolded. Seems to me it'd be a whole lot easier for the to just stay home in their pj's, eat pancakes, and get yelled at over the radion.
- Beth Hoffman
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
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Following religious principles because you fear the consequences isn't faith…. It’s superstition.
- T. Rafael Cimino
A Battle of Angels
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I think it's just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldn't know what to do differently. Everyone just muddles through, trying not to make too many mistakes [...] Half the time we walk around in love with the idea of a thing instead of the reality of it. But sometimes things don't turn out that way. You have to pay attention to what's real, what's in the world. Not some imaginary alternative, as if it's a choice we could make.
- David Wroblewski
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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How do you tell a scribe from a prophet . . .? The prophets love the people they chastise.
- Marylinne Robinson
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those who have loved are those that have found God
- Guru Nanak
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We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.
- Cameron Conaway
Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.
- C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
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Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened.
- Laurence Moore
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When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlesseness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state.
- Arthur Miller
The Crucible
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God is the name of the blanket we throw over mystery to give it shape.
- Barry Taylor
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But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
- William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Divided & Conquered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates.
- Criss Jami
Healology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.
- Francine Rivers
Redeeming Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.
- James Clavell
Shōgun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A spirtually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.
- Swami Bhaskarananda
The Essentials of Hinduism: A Comprehensive Overview of the World's Oldest Religion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
- David Hume
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion / The Natural History of Religion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.
- Michael Arditti
The Enemy of the Good
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts to sea alone, in the darkness of night, beneath a firmament illumined no longer by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope.
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
Against Nature
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Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.
- Brooke Foss Westcott
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As long as we continue to search for enemies anywhere but inside ourselves, there will always be a Middle East problem. Religion is not the solution. Religion without Jesus is just self-righteousness. Freedom from oppression will not resolve things either. Delivered from the oppression of Europe, Israel became the oppressor. Delivered from persecution, Muslims became persecutors. Abused spouses and children often go on to abuse spouses and children. It is a cliché, but it’s still true: hurt people, unless they are healed, hurt people.
- Mosab Hassan Yousef
Son of Hamas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Despite the countless acts of violence that the two had witnessed, and even participated in, over the years, they were still shocked by what they saw.
- Stephen A. Reger
Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Science has carried us to the gateway to the universe. And yet our conception of our surroundings remains the disproportionate view of the still-small child. We are spiritually and culturally paralyzed, unable to face the vastness, to embrace our lack of centrality and find our actual place in the fabric of nature. We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go. That we even do science is a hopeful glimmer of mental health. However, it's not enough merely to accept these insights intellectually while we cling to a spiritual ideology that is not only rootless in nature but also, in many ways, contemptuous of what is natural.
- Ann Druyan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Well, what I don't understand is why people get all dressed up and drive to church so they can sit there and get scolded. Seems to me it'd be a whole lot easier for the to just stay home in their pj's, eat pancakes, and get yelled at over the radion.
- Beth Hoffman
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Following religious principles because you fear the consequences isn't faith…. It’s superstition.
- T. Rafael Cimino
A Battle of Angels
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think it's just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldn't know what to do differently. Everyone just muddles through, trying not to make too many mistakes [...] Half the time we walk around in love with the idea of a thing instead of the reality of it. But sometimes things don't turn out that way. You have to pay attention to what's real, what's in the world. Not some imaginary alternative, as if it's a choice we could make.
- David Wroblewski
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How do you tell a scribe from a prophet . . .? The prophets love the people they chastise.
- Marylinne Robinson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
those who have loved are those that have found God
- Guru Nanak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.
- Cameron Conaway
Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.
- C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened.
- Laurence Moore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlesseness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state.
- Arthur Miller
The Crucible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God is the name of the blanket we throw over mystery to give it shape.
- Barry Taylor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
- William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Divided & Conquered
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates.
- Criss Jami
Healology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.
- Francine Rivers
Redeeming Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.
- James Clavell
Shōgun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A spirtually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.
- Swami Bhaskarananda
The Essentials of Hinduism: A Comprehensive Overview of the World's Oldest Religion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
- David Hume
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion / The Natural History of Religion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.
- Michael Arditti
The Enemy of the Good
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts to sea alone, in the darkness of night, beneath a firmament illumined no longer by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope.
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
Against Nature
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.
- Brooke Foss Westcott
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As long as we continue to search for enemies anywhere but inside ourselves, there will always be a Middle East problem. Religion is not the solution. Religion without Jesus is just self-righteousness. Freedom from oppression will not resolve things either. Delivered from the oppression of Europe, Israel became the oppressor. Delivered from persecution, Muslims became persecutors. Abused spouses and children often go on to abuse spouses and children. It is a cliché, but it’s still true: hurt people, unless they are healed, hurt people.
- Mosab Hassan Yousef
Son of Hamas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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