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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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Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
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In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.
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He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.
- Charlie Higson
The Sacrifice
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All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Pearls Of Eternity
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It amazes me when education, religion and family values fail to create a human being.
- Anum Sattar
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Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations.
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For love is a celestial harmony
Of likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent,
Which join together in sweet sympathy,
To work each other's joy and true content,
Which they have harbour'd since their first descent
Out of their heavenly bowers, where they did see
And know each other here belov'd to be.
- Edmund Spenser
Fowre Hymnes
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Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.
- D.B.C. Pierre
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A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Truth and Method
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I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.
- Karen Armstrong
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
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I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief that the Koran was dictated, though exclusively in Arabic, to an illiterate merchant, or to interest myself in Wicca and Hindu and Jain consolations. And as it happens, I will continue to do this without insisting on the polite reciprocal condition - which is that they in turn leave me alone. But this, religion is ultimately incapable of doing.
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The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.
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I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.
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Rule Number Two, Monsignor. Do not show pity.
- Gretchen McNeil
Possess
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It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin. At the same time he causes them to cherish false conceptions of God so that they regard Him with fear and hate rather than with love. The cruelty inherent in his own character is attributed to the Creator; it is embodied in systems of religion and expressed in modes of worship.
- Ellen G. White
The Great Controversy: Annotated
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Whose little boy are you?
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
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I am very close to HIM, sometimes I think I am HIM, with my mood is the weather,bright and sunny forever.
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Are we interrupting your late-morning nap, Mr. Blake?” District Court Judge Emma Pearl inquired, with a harsh tone and an insistent expression.
- Mark M. Bello
Betrayal of Faith
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The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Yes. There is one God, and he lives in the sky, and he hears all of us. It is just that here on earth, we are confused about how to believe in him. But what does it matter, as long as we trust he is there?
- Kristin Harmel
The Sweetness of Forgetting
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But you do believe, don’t you," Rose implored him, "you think it’s true?"
"Of course it’s true," the Boy said. "What else could there be?" he went scornfully on. "Why," he said, "it’s the only thing that fits. These atheists, they don’t know nothing. Of course there’s Hell. Flames and damnation," he said with his eyes on the dark shifting water and the lightning and the lamps going out above the black struts of the Palace Pier, "torments."
"And Heaven too," Rose said with anxiety, while the rain fell interminably on.
"Oh, maybe," the Boy said, "maybe.
- Graham Greene
Brighton Rock
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I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read
sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others'
religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of the
world's religions is a sacred duty.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God’s will just by breathing.
- Maya Banks
In Bed with a Highlander
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
- Carl Sagan
Contact
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Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.
- Charlie Higson
The Sacrifice
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All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Pearls Of Eternity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It amazes me when education, religion and family values fail to create a human being.
- Anum Sattar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For love is a celestial harmony
Of likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent,
Which join together in sweet sympathy,
To work each other's joy and true content,
Which they have harbour'd since their first descent
Out of their heavenly bowers, where they did see
And know each other here belov'd to be.
- Edmund Spenser
Fowre Hymnes
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Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.
- D.B.C. Pierre
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Truth and Method
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I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.
- Karen Armstrong
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief that the Koran was dictated, though exclusively in Arabic, to an illiterate merchant, or to interest myself in Wicca and Hindu and Jain consolations. And as it happens, I will continue to do this without insisting on the polite reciprocal condition - which is that they in turn leave me alone. But this, religion is ultimately incapable of doing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Rule Number Two, Monsignor. Do not show pity.
- Gretchen McNeil
Possess
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin. At the same time he causes them to cherish false conceptions of God so that they regard Him with fear and hate rather than with love. The cruelty inherent in his own character is attributed to the Creator; it is embodied in systems of religion and expressed in modes of worship.
- Ellen G. White
The Great Controversy: Annotated
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whose little boy are you?
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
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I am very close to HIM, sometimes I think I am HIM, with my mood is the weather,bright and sunny forever.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Are we interrupting your late-morning nap, Mr. Blake?” District Court Judge Emma Pearl inquired, with a harsh tone and an insistent expression.
- Mark M. Bello
Betrayal of Faith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yes. There is one God, and he lives in the sky, and he hears all of us. It is just that here on earth, we are confused about how to believe in him. But what does it matter, as long as we trust he is there?
- Kristin Harmel
The Sweetness of Forgetting
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But you do believe, don’t you," Rose implored him, "you think it’s true?"
"Of course it’s true," the Boy said. "What else could there be?" he went scornfully on. "Why," he said, "it’s the only thing that fits. These atheists, they don’t know nothing. Of course there’s Hell. Flames and damnation," he said with his eyes on the dark shifting water and the lightning and the lamps going out above the black struts of the Palace Pier, "torments."
"And Heaven too," Rose said with anxiety, while the rain fell interminably on.
"Oh, maybe," the Boy said, "maybe.
- Graham Greene
Brighton Rock
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read
sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others'
religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of the
world's religions is a sacred duty.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God’s will just by breathing.
- Maya Banks
In Bed with a Highlander
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
- Carl Sagan
Contact
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.
- Charlie Higson
The Sacrifice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Pearls Of Eternity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It amazes me when education, religion and family values fail to create a human being.
- Anum Sattar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For love is a celestial harmony
Of likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent,
Which join together in sweet sympathy,
To work each other's joy and true content,
Which they have harbour'd since their first descent
Out of their heavenly bowers, where they did see
And know each other here belov'd to be.
- Edmund Spenser
Fowre Hymnes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.
- D.B.C. Pierre
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Truth and Method
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.
- Karen Armstrong
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief that the Koran was dictated, though exclusively in Arabic, to an illiterate merchant, or to interest myself in Wicca and Hindu and Jain consolations. And as it happens, I will continue to do this without insisting on the polite reciprocal condition - which is that they in turn leave me alone. But this, religion is ultimately incapable of doing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Rule Number Two, Monsignor. Do not show pity.
- Gretchen McNeil
Possess
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin. At the same time he causes them to cherish false conceptions of God so that they regard Him with fear and hate rather than with love. The cruelty inherent in his own character is attributed to the Creator; it is embodied in systems of religion and expressed in modes of worship.
- Ellen G. White
The Great Controversy: Annotated
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whose little boy are you?
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am very close to HIM, sometimes I think I am HIM, with my mood is the weather,bright and sunny forever.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Are we interrupting your late-morning nap, Mr. Blake?” District Court Judge Emma Pearl inquired, with a harsh tone and an insistent expression.
- Mark M. Bello
Betrayal of Faith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yes. There is one God, and he lives in the sky, and he hears all of us. It is just that here on earth, we are confused about how to believe in him. But what does it matter, as long as we trust he is there?
- Kristin Harmel
The Sweetness of Forgetting
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But you do believe, don’t you," Rose implored him, "you think it’s true?"
"Of course it’s true," the Boy said. "What else could there be?" he went scornfully on. "Why," he said, "it’s the only thing that fits. These atheists, they don’t know nothing. Of course there’s Hell. Flames and damnation," he said with his eyes on the dark shifting water and the lightning and the lamps going out above the black struts of the Palace Pier, "torments."
"And Heaven too," Rose said with anxiety, while the rain fell interminably on.
"Oh, maybe," the Boy said, "maybe.
- Graham Greene
Brighton Rock
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read
sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others'
religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of the
world's religions is a sacred duty.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God’s will just by breathing.
- Maya Banks
In Bed with a Highlander
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
- Carl Sagan
Contact
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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