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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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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
- John Milton
Paradise Lost
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It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
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Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
- Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.
- C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
- Patrick Rothfuss
The Name of the Wind
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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.
- Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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What has he found who has lost God?
And what has he lost who has found God?
- Ibn 'Ata' Allah Al-Iskandari
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In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.
- Eugene Victor Debs
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We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
- C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
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I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same fifty percent rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't...Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the voodoo lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles. It's all the same...so just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself...
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Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
- G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!
- Harvey Milk
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Woman is the light of God.
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Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.
- Alice Walker
The Color Purple
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
- John Milton
Paradise Lost
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It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
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Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
- Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.
- C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
- Patrick Rothfuss
The Name of the Wind
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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.
- Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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What has he found who has lost God?
And what has he lost who has found God?
- Ibn 'Ata' Allah Al-Iskandari
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In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.
- Eugene Victor Debs
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We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
- C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
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I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same fifty percent rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't...Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the voodoo lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles. It's all the same...so just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself...
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Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
- G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!
- Harvey Milk
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Woman is the light of God.
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Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.
- Alice Walker
The Color Purple
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
- John Milton
Paradise Lost
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It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
- Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.
- C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
- Patrick Rothfuss
The Name of the Wind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.
- Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What has he found who has lost God?
And what has he lost who has found God?
- Ibn 'Ata' Allah Al-Iskandari
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.
- Eugene Victor Debs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
- C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same fifty percent rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't...Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the voodoo lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles. It's all the same...so just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself...
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
- G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!
- Harvey Milk
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Woman is the light of God.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.
- Alice Walker
The Color Purple
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