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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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We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'.
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No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of nature.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide.
While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith.
Faith?" said the Master.
He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?"
That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.
- Anthony de Mello
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We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.
- Gustavo Gutiérrez
A Theology of Liberation
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Seit wir den Glauben und damit die Wahrheit verloren haben, liegt zwischen Heuchelei und Ehrlichkeit der letzte Unterschied, der uns bleibt.
- Juli Zeh
Spieltrieb
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Jarret insists on being a throwback to some earlier, “simpler” time. Now does not suit him. Religious tolerance does not suit him. The current state of the country does not suit him. He wants to take us all back to some magical time when everyone believed in the same God, worshipped him in the same way, and understood that their safety in the universe depended on completing the same religious rituals and stomping anyone who was different. There was never such a time in this country. But these days when more than half the people in the country can’t read at all, history is just one more vast unknown to them.
- Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents
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History would be far different
if we did not tend to hear God
most clearly when we think
He is telling us
exactly what it is
we want to hear
- Madeleine Albright
The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs – A Bold Critique and Call for Moral Consensus in an Era of Religious Terrorism
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In this situation, what we call natural ethics has nothing to offer but the narcissistic satisfaction of being able to think one is better than others. This is where ethics based on religion enters the scene with its promises of a better life hereafter. I am inclined to think that, for as long as virtue goes unrewarded here below, ethics will preach in vain.
- Sigmund Freud
Civilization and Its Discontents
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That’s all religion is. Strategy.
- Stephanie Oakes
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
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Bekerjalah, karena manusia dikirim ke dunia buat bekerja, tetapi tenangkan hati, yakinlah bahwa di dalam pekerjaan itu ada kalah dan menang.
- Hamka
Tasauf Modern
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But you'd get arguments from all kinds of people that the Bible has got to be perfect. That God would not permit such errors to be made in the Holy Word."

"I thought God gave everyone free will. Which would presumably - and evidently - include the freedom to be incorrect when translating one language into another."

"Stop making me think. I'm believing over here.
- Jim Butcher
White Night
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It's the intellectual who transforms the concept of the world into the problem of meaning.
- Max Weber
Social Psychology
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A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is, 'suck it, Jesus! This award is my God now'!
- Kathy Griffin
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Dear Lord," she prayed, "please help me to handle all the work You've set before me. I can only do this with You at my side. Amen.
- Daniel Patterson
One Chance
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Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.
- Robert Anton Wilson
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It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of all the regulations and precepts of civilization. Along with their pretended sanctity, these commandments and laws would lose their rigidity and unchangeableness as well. People could understand that they are made, not so much to rule them as, on the contrary, to serve their interests; and they would adopt a more friendly attitude to them, and instead of aiming at their abolition, would aim only at their improvement.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
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the only unfailing guide I’ve ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen, steward, or believer, is the love burning in my heart. for me, prayer is about one thing: making contact with that love. though it burns in there like a candle flame, hot, bright, beautiful, love’s flame is so fragile… keeping one’s love burning, and living in accord with that burning: this, to me, is prayer.
- David James Duncan
God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
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The human brain has the unique ability to doubt the reality presented to itself. To comprehend the dissonance between ideas and the truth of the surrounding world. God knows this, and it infuriates him. It terrifies him.
- Autumn Christian
The Crooked God Machine
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In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
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Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?
- Qur'an
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Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun.
- Umberto Eco
Il cimitero di Praga
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Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
- Martin Amis
The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007
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You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary and believe things that are false.
- Paul Graham
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I shouldn't be surprised. Catholicism is the ultimate loophole religion (sin, confess, repeat), so it makes sense that a priest would know better than anyone how to work the angles. Still, when you go to confession and say, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned," you don't expect him to say, "So, who hasn't?
- Marc Acito
Attack of the Theater People
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We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of nature.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide.
While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith.
Faith?" said the Master.
He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?"
That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.
- Anthony de Mello
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We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.
- Gustavo Gutiérrez
A Theology of Liberation
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Seit wir den Glauben und damit die Wahrheit verloren haben, liegt zwischen Heuchelei und Ehrlichkeit der letzte Unterschied, der uns bleibt.
- Juli Zeh
Spieltrieb
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Jarret insists on being a throwback to some earlier, “simpler” time. Now does not suit him. Religious tolerance does not suit him. The current state of the country does not suit him. He wants to take us all back to some magical time when everyone believed in the same God, worshipped him in the same way, and understood that their safety in the universe depended on completing the same religious rituals and stomping anyone who was different. There was never such a time in this country. But these days when more than half the people in the country can’t read at all, history is just one more vast unknown to them.
- Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents
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History would be far different
if we did not tend to hear God
most clearly when we think
He is telling us
exactly what it is
we want to hear
- Madeleine Albright
The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs – A Bold Critique and Call for Moral Consensus in an Era of Religious Terrorism
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In this situation, what we call natural ethics has nothing to offer but the narcissistic satisfaction of being able to think one is better than others. This is where ethics based on religion enters the scene with its promises of a better life hereafter. I am inclined to think that, for as long as virtue goes unrewarded here below, ethics will preach in vain.
- Sigmund Freud
Civilization and Its Discontents
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That’s all religion is. Strategy.
- Stephanie Oakes
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bekerjalah, karena manusia dikirim ke dunia buat bekerja, tetapi tenangkan hati, yakinlah bahwa di dalam pekerjaan itu ada kalah dan menang.
- Hamka
Tasauf Modern
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But you'd get arguments from all kinds of people that the Bible has got to be perfect. That God would not permit such errors to be made in the Holy Word."

"I thought God gave everyone free will. Which would presumably - and evidently - include the freedom to be incorrect when translating one language into another."

"Stop making me think. I'm believing over here.
- Jim Butcher
White Night
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's the intellectual who transforms the concept of the world into the problem of meaning.
- Max Weber
Social Psychology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is, 'suck it, Jesus! This award is my God now'!
- Kathy Griffin
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Dear Lord," she prayed, "please help me to handle all the work You've set before me. I can only do this with You at my side. Amen.
- Daniel Patterson
One Chance
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Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.
- Robert Anton Wilson
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It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of all the regulations and precepts of civilization. Along with their pretended sanctity, these commandments and laws would lose their rigidity and unchangeableness as well. People could understand that they are made, not so much to rule them as, on the contrary, to serve their interests; and they would adopt a more friendly attitude to them, and instead of aiming at their abolition, would aim only at their improvement.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
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the only unfailing guide I’ve ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen, steward, or believer, is the love burning in my heart. for me, prayer is about one thing: making contact with that love. though it burns in there like a candle flame, hot, bright, beautiful, love’s flame is so fragile… keeping one’s love burning, and living in accord with that burning: this, to me, is prayer.
- David James Duncan
God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
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The human brain has the unique ability to doubt the reality presented to itself. To comprehend the dissonance between ideas and the truth of the surrounding world. God knows this, and it infuriates him. It terrifies him.
- Autumn Christian
The Crooked God Machine
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In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?
- Qur'an
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Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun.
- Umberto Eco
Il cimitero di Praga
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Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
- Martin Amis
The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007
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You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary and believe things that are false.
- Paul Graham
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I shouldn't be surprised. Catholicism is the ultimate loophole religion (sin, confess, repeat), so it makes sense that a priest would know better than anyone how to work the angles. Still, when you go to confession and say, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned," you don't expect him to say, "So, who hasn't?
- Marc Acito
Attack of the Theater People
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We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of nature.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide.
While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith.
Faith?" said the Master.
He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?"
That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.
- Anthony de Mello
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.
- Gustavo Gutiérrez
A Theology of Liberation
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Seit wir den Glauben und damit die Wahrheit verloren haben, liegt zwischen Heuchelei und Ehrlichkeit der letzte Unterschied, der uns bleibt.
- Juli Zeh
Spieltrieb
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Jarret insists on being a throwback to some earlier, “simpler” time. Now does not suit him. Religious tolerance does not suit him. The current state of the country does not suit him. He wants to take us all back to some magical time when everyone believed in the same God, worshipped him in the same way, and understood that their safety in the universe depended on completing the same religious rituals and stomping anyone who was different. There was never such a time in this country. But these days when more than half the people in the country can’t read at all, history is just one more vast unknown to them.
- Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
History would be far different
if we did not tend to hear God
most clearly when we think
He is telling us
exactly what it is
we want to hear
- Madeleine Albright
The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs – A Bold Critique and Call for Moral Consensus in an Era of Religious Terrorism
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In this situation, what we call natural ethics has nothing to offer but the narcissistic satisfaction of being able to think one is better than others. This is where ethics based on religion enters the scene with its promises of a better life hereafter. I am inclined to think that, for as long as virtue goes unrewarded here below, ethics will preach in vain.
- Sigmund Freud
Civilization and Its Discontents
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That’s all religion is. Strategy.
- Stephanie Oakes
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bekerjalah, karena manusia dikirim ke dunia buat bekerja, tetapi tenangkan hati, yakinlah bahwa di dalam pekerjaan itu ada kalah dan menang.
- Hamka
Tasauf Modern
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But you'd get arguments from all kinds of people that the Bible has got to be perfect. That God would not permit such errors to be made in the Holy Word."

"I thought God gave everyone free will. Which would presumably - and evidently - include the freedom to be incorrect when translating one language into another."

"Stop making me think. I'm believing over here.
- Jim Butcher
White Night
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's the intellectual who transforms the concept of the world into the problem of meaning.
- Max Weber
Social Psychology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is, 'suck it, Jesus! This award is my God now'!
- Kathy Griffin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dear Lord," she prayed, "please help me to handle all the work You've set before me. I can only do this with You at my side. Amen.
- Daniel Patterson
One Chance
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of all the regulations and precepts of civilization. Along with their pretended sanctity, these commandments and laws would lose their rigidity and unchangeableness as well. People could understand that they are made, not so much to rule them as, on the contrary, to serve their interests; and they would adopt a more friendly attitude to them, and instead of aiming at their abolition, would aim only at their improvement.
- Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
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the only unfailing guide I’ve ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen, steward, or believer, is the love burning in my heart. for me, prayer is about one thing: making contact with that love. though it burns in there like a candle flame, hot, bright, beautiful, love’s flame is so fragile… keeping one’s love burning, and living in accord with that burning: this, to me, is prayer.
- David James Duncan
God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The human brain has the unique ability to doubt the reality presented to itself. To comprehend the dissonance between ideas and the truth of the surrounding world. God knows this, and it infuriates him. It terrifies him.
- Autumn Christian
The Crooked God Machine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?
- Qur'an
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun.
- Umberto Eco
Il cimitero di Praga
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
- Martin Amis
The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary and believe things that are false.
- Paul Graham
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I shouldn't be surprised. Catholicism is the ultimate loophole religion (sin, confess, repeat), so it makes sense that a priest would know better than anyone how to work the angles. Still, when you go to confession and say, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned," you don't expect him to say, "So, who hasn't?
- Marc Acito
Attack of the Theater People
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