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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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What science does not understand is called psychology, what psychology does not understand is called religion, what religion does not understand is called spirituality, what spirituality does not understand is called creation, what creation does not understand is called life, what life does not understand is called the death. There is nothing that the death does not understand—simply, it is an ultimate end of life.
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For Hell and the foul fiend that rules
God's everlasting fiery jails
(Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools),
With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door,
Are senseless stories, idle tales,
Dreams, whimseys, and no more.
- John Wilmot
The Complete Poems
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Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just
- Michela Wrong
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
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I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mommy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they just all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, "It's me, your father," but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell.
- Keith Richards
Life
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The divine is always abominable.
"Houses Under The Sea
- Caitlín R. Kiernan
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In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
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for what is religion if not a kind of madness, and what is madness without a touch of religion?
- James Robertson
The Testament of Gideon Mack
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We are no longer so lacking in fantasy as to uphold the existence of a god.
- Carl Einstein
Bebuquin
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Don't you find it interesting that people even use that term, 'act of God'? Considering that most want to believe that God is about lambs and love and babies and mangers. And yet this same so-called benevolent being smites innocent people left and right, indicating an anger management problem, maybe even manic depression. In a psychiatric ward, such a patient would be subjected to electroshock therapy.
- Bonnie Garmus
Lessons in Chemistry
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Same idea!" he says. "I'm Jewish because everyone before me was, and you're Catholic because Spanish assholes forcibly converted your ancestors. How's that a choice?
- Katie Henry
Heretics Anonymous
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We often discuss issues such as pollution, poverty, or corruption from a global perspective; yet we fail to consider them locally—in our city, neighborhood, or even family. We’re thus trained to be irresponsible: the more we think and talk about problems we can’t control—the more virtuous we feel but—the more we neglect the problems which are in our control.
- Vizi Andrei
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Take principles, not just religion, to people
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Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.
- Mary E. DeMuth
Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
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Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.
- Mark Buchananchanan
The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God
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When we remember our identity in Christ, it changes the way we see these relationships because we no longer base our worth on the approval of others but the approval we have already received from our Father through the work of His son.
- Amy E. Spiegel
Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
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Two men who had never seen each other before and would not likely see each other again. But their sincerity and sweetness, their sharing an instant in a fleeting life. It was almost as if a secret had passed between them. Was this some kind of love? I wanted to follow them, to touch them, to tell them of my happiness. I wanted to whisper to them: 'This is it. This is it'".
- Alan Lightman
Mr g
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At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
- E.J. Dionne Jr.
Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right
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My God can do it!
My God will do it!
My God wants to do it!
My God has done it!
- Kathy Degraw
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And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.
- Robin Wasserman
The Book of Blood and Shadow
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It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.
- Frederick Buechner
The Magnificent Defeat
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I'm through with you. Yes, I am going to put you down. From now on, I am my own God. I am going to live by the rules I se for myself. I'll discard everything I was once taught about you. Then I'll be you. I'll be my own God, living my life as I see fit. Not as Mr. Charlie says I should live it, or Mama or anybody else. I shall do as I want in this society that apparently wasn't meant for me and my kind. If you are getting angry because I am talking to you like this, then just kill me, leave me here in this graveyard dead. Maybe thats where all of us belong anyway. Maybe then we wouldn't have to suffer so much. At the rate we are being killed now, we'll all be soon dead anyway.
- Anne Moody
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
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Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor too often becomes arrogance and bigotry.
- Persia Woolley
Child of the Northern Spring
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but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.
- Charles Williams
War in Heaven
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Religious laws, in all the major religious traditions, have both a letter and a spirit. As I understand the words and example of Jesus, the spirit of the law is all-important whereas the letter, while useful… becomes lifeless and deadly without it. In accord with this distinction a yearning to worship on wilderness ridges or beside rivers rather than in churches could legitimately be called evangelical… if your words or deeds harmonize with the example of Jesus, you are evangelical in spirit whether you claim to be or not. When the non-Christian Ambrose Bierce wrote, “War is the means by which Americans learn geography,” his words are aimed at the same antiwar end as “Blessed are the peacemakers.
- David James Duncan
God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
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What science does not understand is called psychology, what psychology does not understand is called religion, what religion does not understand is called spirituality, what spirituality does not understand is called creation, what creation does not understand is called life, what life does not understand is called the death. There is nothing that the death does not understand—simply, it is an ultimate end of life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For Hell and the foul fiend that rules
God's everlasting fiery jails
(Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools),
With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door,
Are senseless stories, idle tales,
Dreams, whimseys, and no more.
- John Wilmot
The Complete Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just
- Michela Wrong
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mommy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they just all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, "It's me, your father," but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell.
- Keith Richards
Life
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The divine is always abominable.
"Houses Under The Sea
- Caitlín R. Kiernan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
for what is religion if not a kind of madness, and what is madness without a touch of religion?
- James Robertson
The Testament of Gideon Mack
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are no longer so lacking in fantasy as to uphold the existence of a god.
- Carl Einstein
Bebuquin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't you find it interesting that people even use that term, 'act of God'? Considering that most want to believe that God is about lambs and love and babies and mangers. And yet this same so-called benevolent being smites innocent people left and right, indicating an anger management problem, maybe even manic depression. In a psychiatric ward, such a patient would be subjected to electroshock therapy.
- Bonnie Garmus
Lessons in Chemistry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Same idea!" he says. "I'm Jewish because everyone before me was, and you're Catholic because Spanish assholes forcibly converted your ancestors. How's that a choice?
- Katie Henry
Heretics Anonymous
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We often discuss issues such as pollution, poverty, or corruption from a global perspective; yet we fail to consider them locally—in our city, neighborhood, or even family. We’re thus trained to be irresponsible: the more we think and talk about problems we can’t control—the more virtuous we feel but—the more we neglect the problems which are in our control.
- Vizi Andrei
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take principles, not just religion, to people
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.
- Mary E. DeMuth
Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.
- Mark Buchananchanan
The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we remember our identity in Christ, it changes the way we see these relationships because we no longer base our worth on the approval of others but the approval we have already received from our Father through the work of His son.
- Amy E. Spiegel
Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Two men who had never seen each other before and would not likely see each other again. But their sincerity and sweetness, their sharing an instant in a fleeting life. It was almost as if a secret had passed between them. Was this some kind of love? I wanted to follow them, to touch them, to tell them of my happiness. I wanted to whisper to them: 'This is it. This is it'".
- Alan Lightman
Mr g
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
- E.J. Dionne Jr.
Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My God can do it!
My God will do it!
My God wants to do it!
My God has done it!
- Kathy Degraw
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.
- Robin Wasserman
The Book of Blood and Shadow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.
- Frederick Buechner
The Magnificent Defeat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm through with you. Yes, I am going to put you down. From now on, I am my own God. I am going to live by the rules I se for myself. I'll discard everything I was once taught about you. Then I'll be you. I'll be my own God, living my life as I see fit. Not as Mr. Charlie says I should live it, or Mama or anybody else. I shall do as I want in this society that apparently wasn't meant for me and my kind. If you are getting angry because I am talking to you like this, then just kill me, leave me here in this graveyard dead. Maybe thats where all of us belong anyway. Maybe then we wouldn't have to suffer so much. At the rate we are being killed now, we'll all be soon dead anyway.
- Anne Moody
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor too often becomes arrogance and bigotry.
- Persia Woolley
Child of the Northern Spring
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.
- Charles Williams
War in Heaven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religious laws, in all the major religious traditions, have both a letter and a spirit. As I understand the words and example of Jesus, the spirit of the law is all-important whereas the letter, while useful… becomes lifeless and deadly without it. In accord with this distinction a yearning to worship on wilderness ridges or beside rivers rather than in churches could legitimately be called evangelical… if your words or deeds harmonize with the example of Jesus, you are evangelical in spirit whether you claim to be or not. When the non-Christian Ambrose Bierce wrote, “War is the means by which Americans learn geography,” his words are aimed at the same antiwar end as “Blessed are the peacemakers.
- David James Duncan
God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What science does not understand is called psychology, what psychology does not understand is called religion, what religion does not understand is called spirituality, what spirituality does not understand is called creation, what creation does not understand is called life, what life does not understand is called the death. There is nothing that the death does not understand—simply, it is an ultimate end of life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For Hell and the foul fiend that rules
God's everlasting fiery jails
(Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools),
With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door,
Are senseless stories, idle tales,
Dreams, whimseys, and no more.
- John Wilmot
The Complete Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just
- Michela Wrong
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mommy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they just all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, "It's me, your father," but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell.
- Keith Richards
Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The divine is always abominable.
"Houses Under The Sea
- Caitlín R. Kiernan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
for what is religion if not a kind of madness, and what is madness without a touch of religion?
- James Robertson
The Testament of Gideon Mack
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are no longer so lacking in fantasy as to uphold the existence of a god.
- Carl Einstein
Bebuquin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't you find it interesting that people even use that term, 'act of God'? Considering that most want to believe that God is about lambs and love and babies and mangers. And yet this same so-called benevolent being smites innocent people left and right, indicating an anger management problem, maybe even manic depression. In a psychiatric ward, such a patient would be subjected to electroshock therapy.
- Bonnie Garmus
Lessons in Chemistry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Same idea!" he says. "I'm Jewish because everyone before me was, and you're Catholic because Spanish assholes forcibly converted your ancestors. How's that a choice?
- Katie Henry
Heretics Anonymous
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We often discuss issues such as pollution, poverty, or corruption from a global perspective; yet we fail to consider them locally—in our city, neighborhood, or even family. We’re thus trained to be irresponsible: the more we think and talk about problems we can’t control—the more virtuous we feel but—the more we neglect the problems which are in our control.
- Vizi Andrei
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take principles, not just religion, to people
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.
- Mary E. DeMuth
Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.
- Mark Buchananchanan
The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we remember our identity in Christ, it changes the way we see these relationships because we no longer base our worth on the approval of others but the approval we have already received from our Father through the work of His son.
- Amy E. Spiegel
Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Two men who had never seen each other before and would not likely see each other again. But their sincerity and sweetness, their sharing an instant in a fleeting life. It was almost as if a secret had passed between them. Was this some kind of love? I wanted to follow them, to touch them, to tell them of my happiness. I wanted to whisper to them: 'This is it. This is it'".
- Alan Lightman
Mr g
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
- E.J. Dionne Jr.
Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My God can do it!
My God will do it!
My God wants to do it!
My God has done it!
- Kathy Degraw
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.
- Robin Wasserman
The Book of Blood and Shadow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.
- Frederick Buechner
The Magnificent Defeat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm through with you. Yes, I am going to put you down. From now on, I am my own God. I am going to live by the rules I se for myself. I'll discard everything I was once taught about you. Then I'll be you. I'll be my own God, living my life as I see fit. Not as Mr. Charlie says I should live it, or Mama or anybody else. I shall do as I want in this society that apparently wasn't meant for me and my kind. If you are getting angry because I am talking to you like this, then just kill me, leave me here in this graveyard dead. Maybe thats where all of us belong anyway. Maybe then we wouldn't have to suffer so much. At the rate we are being killed now, we'll all be soon dead anyway.
- Anne Moody
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor too often becomes arrogance and bigotry.
- Persia Woolley
Child of the Northern Spring
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.
- Charles Williams
War in Heaven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religious laws, in all the major religious traditions, have both a letter and a spirit. As I understand the words and example of Jesus, the spirit of the law is all-important whereas the letter, while useful… becomes lifeless and deadly without it. In accord with this distinction a yearning to worship on wilderness ridges or beside rivers rather than in churches could legitimately be called evangelical… if your words or deeds harmonize with the example of Jesus, you are evangelical in spirit whether you claim to be or not. When the non-Christian Ambrose Bierce wrote, “War is the means by which Americans learn geography,” his words are aimed at the same antiwar end as “Blessed are the peacemakers.
- David James Duncan
God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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