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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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Huemer argues that it is at least plausible that the past is not finite, so we have decent evidence to believe in eternal recurrence. Theologists and religious studies folks do not like this argument for the same reasons they do not like Pascal's Wager, which is that it seems to mathematically cheat to conclusions that religions have taken thousands of years to articulate.
- R.F. Kuang
Katabasis
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At one time, I believed the universe was conscious of itself and that we were separate from it. But gradually, I began to sense that we are not apart, we are nature. We constitute her as a whole. Perhaps the collective consciousness is nothing but nature’s consciousness itself.
- Sajal Garg
Glimpses of My Worldview
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You have a make-believe friend, it’s a disease. You have a make-believe caretaker, that’s a religion.
- Daksh Tyagi
The Radicalist
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I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of his own heart.
- Isak Dinesen
Seven Gothic Tales
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It was a cold-blooded lie that a god had lovingly made the world and set out the sun and moon as lights to land dwellers, that brothers had fought, that one of the races was saved, the other cursed. Yet he, the old Shaper, might make it true, by the sweetness of his harp, his cunning trickery. It came to me with a fierce jolt that I wanted it.
- John Gardner
Grendel
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The only place among the southern islands where a ship can put in and get what it wants in comfort is where the Gospel has been sent to. For my part, I don't know and I don't care what the Gospel does to them, but I know that when any o' the islands chance to get it, trade goes smooth and easy.
- R.M. Ballantyne
The Coral Island
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At first, the truth doesn't come as a friend.
- Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
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The conviction that we have always-already known everything that is worth knowing, and that everything we knew is only confirmed—never rejected—by science, has prevented us from developing an ethos of honest inquiry. The compulsion to establish harmony with the core of the Vedic worldview has held back the progress of science in the past, and will continue to hold us back if we continue to go down this path.
- Meera Nanda
Science In Saffron: Skeptical Essays On History of Science
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God of the gaps cannot be God of the world, and God of the world should not be abused as god of the gaps.
- Abhijit Naskar
Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
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A heretic may be anyone whose outlook someone else dislikes or denounces. According to tradition, a heretic is one who deviates from the true faith. But what defines that "true faith"? Who calls it that, and for what reasons?
- Elaine Pagels
The Gnostic Gospels
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Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.
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I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time.
She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.
- Richard Pryor
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
- George Deacon
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
- Annie Wood Besant
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Sitting still is a pain in the ass.
- Noah Levine
Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
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Do you believe in God, doctor?"

No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
- Albert Camus
The Plague
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The river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves?
When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is the same water again. Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction?
Because it has been named as wave, shall it no longer be considered as water?

Within the Supreme Brahma, the worlds are being told like beads:
Look upon that rosary with the eyes of wisdom.
- Kabir
One Hundred Poems of Kabir
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Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.
- Stephen K. Hayes
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There is much in this vision that will remind you of your mystics; yet between them and us there is far more difference than similarity, in respect both of the matter and the manner of our thought. For while they are confident that the cosmos is perfect, we are sure only that it is very beautiful. While they pass to their conclusion without the aid of intellect, we have used that staff every step of the way. Thus, even when in respect of conclusions we agree with your mystics rather than your plodding intellectuals, in respect of method we applaud most your intellectuals; for they scorned to deceive themselves with comfortable fantasies.
- Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men
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Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.
- Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
The Religion of God
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Huemer argues that it is at least plausible that the past is not finite, so we have decent evidence to believe in eternal recurrence. Theologists and religious studies folks do not like this argument for the same reasons they do not like Pascal's Wager, which is that it seems to mathematically cheat to conclusions that religions have taken thousands of years to articulate.
- R.F. Kuang
Katabasis
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At one time, I believed the universe was conscious of itself and that we were separate from it. But gradually, I began to sense that we are not apart, we are nature. We constitute her as a whole. Perhaps the collective consciousness is nothing but nature’s consciousness itself.
- Sajal Garg
Glimpses of My Worldview
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You have a make-believe friend, it’s a disease. You have a make-believe caretaker, that’s a religion.
- Daksh Tyagi
The Radicalist
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I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of his own heart.
- Isak Dinesen
Seven Gothic Tales
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It was a cold-blooded lie that a god had lovingly made the world and set out the sun and moon as lights to land dwellers, that brothers had fought, that one of the races was saved, the other cursed. Yet he, the old Shaper, might make it true, by the sweetness of his harp, his cunning trickery. It came to me with a fierce jolt that I wanted it.
- John Gardner
Grendel
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The only place among the southern islands where a ship can put in and get what it wants in comfort is where the Gospel has been sent to. For my part, I don't know and I don't care what the Gospel does to them, but I know that when any o' the islands chance to get it, trade goes smooth and easy.
- R.M. Ballantyne
The Coral Island
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At first, the truth doesn't come as a friend.
- Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The conviction that we have always-already known everything that is worth knowing, and that everything we knew is only confirmed—never rejected—by science, has prevented us from developing an ethos of honest inquiry. The compulsion to establish harmony with the core of the Vedic worldview has held back the progress of science in the past, and will continue to hold us back if we continue to go down this path.
- Meera Nanda
Science In Saffron: Skeptical Essays On History of Science
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God of the gaps cannot be God of the world, and God of the world should not be abused as god of the gaps.
- Abhijit Naskar
Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
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A heretic may be anyone whose outlook someone else dislikes or denounces. According to tradition, a heretic is one who deviates from the true faith. But what defines that "true faith"? Who calls it that, and for what reasons?
- Elaine Pagels
The Gnostic Gospels
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Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time.
She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.
- Richard Pryor
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
- George Deacon
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
- Annie Wood Besant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sitting still is a pain in the ass.
- Noah Levine
Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you believe in God, doctor?"

No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
- Albert Camus
The Plague
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The river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves?
When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is the same water again. Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction?
Because it has been named as wave, shall it no longer be considered as water?

Within the Supreme Brahma, the worlds are being told like beads:
Look upon that rosary with the eyes of wisdom.
- Kabir
One Hundred Poems of Kabir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.
- Stephen K. Hayes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is much in this vision that will remind you of your mystics; yet between them and us there is far more difference than similarity, in respect both of the matter and the manner of our thought. For while they are confident that the cosmos is perfect, we are sure only that it is very beautiful. While they pass to their conclusion without the aid of intellect, we have used that staff every step of the way. Thus, even when in respect of conclusions we agree with your mystics rather than your plodding intellectuals, in respect of method we applaud most your intellectuals; for they scorned to deceive themselves with comfortable fantasies.
- Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men
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Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.
- Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
The Religion of God
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Huemer argues that it is at least plausible that the past is not finite, so we have decent evidence to believe in eternal recurrence. Theologists and religious studies folks do not like this argument for the same reasons they do not like Pascal's Wager, which is that it seems to mathematically cheat to conclusions that religions have taken thousands of years to articulate.
- R.F. Kuang
Katabasis
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At one time, I believed the universe was conscious of itself and that we were separate from it. But gradually, I began to sense that we are not apart, we are nature. We constitute her as a whole. Perhaps the collective consciousness is nothing but nature’s consciousness itself.
- Sajal Garg
Glimpses of My Worldview
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You have a make-believe friend, it’s a disease. You have a make-believe caretaker, that’s a religion.
- Daksh Tyagi
The Radicalist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of his own heart.
- Isak Dinesen
Seven Gothic Tales
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was a cold-blooded lie that a god had lovingly made the world and set out the sun and moon as lights to land dwellers, that brothers had fought, that one of the races was saved, the other cursed. Yet he, the old Shaper, might make it true, by the sweetness of his harp, his cunning trickery. It came to me with a fierce jolt that I wanted it.
- John Gardner
Grendel
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The only place among the southern islands where a ship can put in and get what it wants in comfort is where the Gospel has been sent to. For my part, I don't know and I don't care what the Gospel does to them, but I know that when any o' the islands chance to get it, trade goes smooth and easy.
- R.M. Ballantyne
The Coral Island
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
At first, the truth doesn't come as a friend.
- Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The conviction that we have always-already known everything that is worth knowing, and that everything we knew is only confirmed—never rejected—by science, has prevented us from developing an ethos of honest inquiry. The compulsion to establish harmony with the core of the Vedic worldview has held back the progress of science in the past, and will continue to hold us back if we continue to go down this path.
- Meera Nanda
Science In Saffron: Skeptical Essays On History of Science
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God of the gaps cannot be God of the world, and God of the world should not be abused as god of the gaps.
- Abhijit Naskar
Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A heretic may be anyone whose outlook someone else dislikes or denounces. According to tradition, a heretic is one who deviates from the true faith. But what defines that "true faith"? Who calls it that, and for what reasons?
- Elaine Pagels
The Gnostic Gospels
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time.
She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.
- Richard Pryor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
- George Deacon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
- Annie Wood Besant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sitting still is a pain in the ass.
- Noah Levine
Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you believe in God, doctor?"

No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
- Albert Camus
The Plague
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves?
When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is the same water again. Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction?
Because it has been named as wave, shall it no longer be considered as water?

Within the Supreme Brahma, the worlds are being told like beads:
Look upon that rosary with the eyes of wisdom.
- Kabir
One Hundred Poems of Kabir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.
- Stephen K. Hayes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is much in this vision that will remind you of your mystics; yet between them and us there is far more difference than similarity, in respect both of the matter and the manner of our thought. For while they are confident that the cosmos is perfect, we are sure only that it is very beautiful. While they pass to their conclusion without the aid of intellect, we have used that staff every step of the way. Thus, even when in respect of conclusions we agree with your mystics rather than your plodding intellectuals, in respect of method we applaud most your intellectuals; for they scorned to deceive themselves with comfortable fantasies.
- Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.
- Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
The Religion of God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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