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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 idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.
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What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.
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In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of the people that come and watch the gay Halloween parade, where all those excesses are on display, those are straight families, and they think it's funny. But what people don't think is so funny is when two middle-aged lawyers who are married to each other move in next door to you and your wife and they have adopted a Korean girl and they want to send her to school with your children and they want to socialize with you and share a drink over the backyard fence. That creeps people out, especially Christians. So, I don't think gay marriage is a conservative issue. I think it's a radical issue.
- Edmund White
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
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What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?'

'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.
- Stanisław Lem
Solaris
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He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels.
- Henri Michaux
Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
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knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
We
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I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It wants union with us, more than anything.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
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I had a long talk with my dear Fat Mary that night, because I had many questions. Could someone actually be beaten to death by such a nun? Did Mother Rufina, the new Superior, know that Sister Clotilda was so cruel? Who let her work with children? Could nuns go to hell?
Fat Mary told me she didn’t know the answers to my questions, but she reminded me that it was her role to take my worries and burdens and keep them for me until a time when I could understand them.
- Maria Nhambu
Africa's Child
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I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings. I think that, uh, we should use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems, and stop relying on prayer and wishful thinking. If we have faith in ourselves, we won't have to have faith in gods.
- Ruth Hurmence Green
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Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
- David M. Eagleman
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
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Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
- Anonymous
The Holy Bible: King James Version
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The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time by ecclesiastical authorities and their apologists. The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people’s interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise.
- Steven Pinker
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.
- Frank Warren
PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives – Dark, Honest Secrets Revealed Anonymously on Handmade Postcards
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When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.
- Karl Rahner
The Need and the Blessing of Prayer
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What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
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[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
- C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
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If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.
- The Bhagavad Gita
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Faith is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see,
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
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It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
- Jodi Picoult
Change of Heart
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Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.
- Larken Rose
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The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.
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What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.
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In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of the people that come and watch the gay Halloween parade, where all those excesses are on display, those are straight families, and they think it's funny. But what people don't think is so funny is when two middle-aged lawyers who are married to each other move in next door to you and your wife and they have adopted a Korean girl and they want to send her to school with your children and they want to socialize with you and share a drink over the backyard fence. That creeps people out, especially Christians. So, I don't think gay marriage is a conservative issue. I think it's a radical issue.
- Edmund White
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?'

'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.
- Stanisław Lem
Solaris
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He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels.
- Henri Michaux
Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
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knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
We
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I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It wants union with us, more than anything.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
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I had a long talk with my dear Fat Mary that night, because I had many questions. Could someone actually be beaten to death by such a nun? Did Mother Rufina, the new Superior, know that Sister Clotilda was so cruel? Who let her work with children? Could nuns go to hell?
Fat Mary told me she didn’t know the answers to my questions, but she reminded me that it was her role to take my worries and burdens and keep them for me until a time when I could understand them.
- Maria Nhambu
Africa's Child
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I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings. I think that, uh, we should use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems, and stop relying on prayer and wishful thinking. If we have faith in ourselves, we won't have to have faith in gods.
- Ruth Hurmence Green
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Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
- David M. Eagleman
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
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Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
- Anonymous
The Holy Bible: King James Version
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The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time by ecclesiastical authorities and their apologists. The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people’s interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise.
- Steven Pinker
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.
- Frank Warren
PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives – Dark, Honest Secrets Revealed Anonymously on Handmade Postcards
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When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.
- Karl Rahner
The Need and the Blessing of Prayer
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What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
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[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
- C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
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If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.
- The Bhagavad Gita
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Faith is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see,
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
- Jodi Picoult
Change of Heart
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Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.
- Larken Rose
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The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of the people that come and watch the gay Halloween parade, where all those excesses are on display, those are straight families, and they think it's funny. But what people don't think is so funny is when two middle-aged lawyers who are married to each other move in next door to you and your wife and they have adopted a Korean girl and they want to send her to school with your children and they want to socialize with you and share a drink over the backyard fence. That creeps people out, especially Christians. So, I don't think gay marriage is a conservative issue. I think it's a radical issue.
- Edmund White
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?'

'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.
- Stanisław Lem
Solaris
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He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels.
- Henri Michaux
Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
We
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It wants union with us, more than anything.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
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I had a long talk with my dear Fat Mary that night, because I had many questions. Could someone actually be beaten to death by such a nun? Did Mother Rufina, the new Superior, know that Sister Clotilda was so cruel? Who let her work with children? Could nuns go to hell?
Fat Mary told me she didn’t know the answers to my questions, but she reminded me that it was her role to take my worries and burdens and keep them for me until a time when I could understand them.
- Maria Nhambu
Africa's Child
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings. I think that, uh, we should use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems, and stop relying on prayer and wishful thinking. If we have faith in ourselves, we won't have to have faith in gods.
- Ruth Hurmence Green
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
- David M. Eagleman
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
- Anonymous
The Holy Bible: King James Version
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The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time by ecclesiastical authorities and their apologists. The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people’s interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise.
- Steven Pinker
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.
- Frank Warren
PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives – Dark, Honest Secrets Revealed Anonymously on Handmade Postcards
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.
- Karl Rahner
The Need and the Blessing of Prayer
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What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
- C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.
- The Bhagavad Gita
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Faith is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see,
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
- Jodi Picoult
Change of Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.
- Larken Rose
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