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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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Every religion should be in favor of humankind.
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You must not suppose that I would like you to profess religion without possessing it. A hypocrite is in my opinion one of the most detestable of beings. my opinion is, that every one should honestly and carefully investigate the Bible; and if he can believe it to be the word of God, to follow its teachings." - Brevet Major Thomas J. Jackson (1 March 1851)
- James I. Robertson Jr.
Stonewall Jackson : The Man, the Soldier, the Legend
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(Prayer is) a fictitious consolation invented by those who have everything in order to keep those who have nothing contented. I belong to the bourgeoisie and I know the only reason my class bothers to show the lower classes that distant paradise full of ineffable pleasures that will one day be theirs is to divert attention from their own bulging coffers and from the abundance of their harvests.
- Eca De Queiroz
The Mandarin and Other Stories
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...Originally everything about a Greek or Christian building meant something, and in reference to a higher order of things. This atmosphere of inexhaustible meaningfulness hung about the building like a magic veil. Beauty entered the system only secondarily, impairing the basic feeling of uncanny sublimity, of sanctification by magic or the gods' nearness. At the most, beauty tempered the dread - but this dread was the prerequisite everywhere. What does the beauty of a building mean to us now? The same as the beautiful face of a mindless woman: something masklike.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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the believer claims to know, not just that God exists, but that his most detailed wishes are not merely knowable but actually known. Since religion drew its first breath when the species lived in utter ignorance and considerable fear, I hope I may be forgiven for declining to believe that another human being can tell me what to do, in the most intimate details of my life and mind, and to further dictate these terms as if acting as proxy for a supernatural entity.
- Christopher Hitchens
Is Christianity Good for the World?
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The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists--and that one has to pay them back with sacrifices and accomplishments; one thus recognizes a debt that constantly grows greater, since these forebears never cease, in their continued existence as powerful spirits, to accord the tribe new advantages and new strength.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
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Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
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...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
- Richard Rohr
Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps
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Lovelessness is a huge sin in the church. The four primary personalities in the New Testament- Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John- all four of them say that love is the most important thing. But the only time love really counts is when something unlovely happens.
- Chu Jeff
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
- Alain de Botton
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
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First-class religion teaches one how to love God without any motive. If I serve God for some profit, that is business-not love.
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Science of Self-Realization
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Strange to hear atheists say 'god' when having great sex.
- Toba Beta
Master of Stupidity
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When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we're lost.
- Wes Moore
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Logic kills. Faith burns. Better to be the one with the torch than the one on the pyre.
- Chris Galford
The Hollow March
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Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.
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But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say. Christ crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern Christianity is to crucify him again and again so that he can never get a word out of his mouth.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!
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I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
- A. Whitney Brown
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Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ‘straight’, ‘square’, and ‘flat’ the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture
- Isak Dinesen
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I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions’ stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.
- M.F. Moonzajer
LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
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At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitments may be sublime; to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.
- Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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The supernatural is not as it claims, for it is inherently unnatural; it seeks to separate us from our natural world.
- Joe Iacovino
In The Shadow Of The Sun
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It seems to me that religion is losing momentum and God is making a comeback.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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That was rather interesting,' Mercer said as he filled his coffee mug and passed the thermal carafe to John. 'What do you say for dinner? "Blessed be the serial killers, or else the devil would have no one to torment.
- Lynn Viehl
Dark Need
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Every religion should be in favor of humankind.
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You must not suppose that I would like you to profess religion without possessing it. A hypocrite is in my opinion one of the most detestable of beings. my opinion is, that every one should honestly and carefully investigate the Bible; and if he can believe it to be the word of God, to follow its teachings." - Brevet Major Thomas J. Jackson (1 March 1851)
- James I. Robertson Jr.
Stonewall Jackson : The Man, the Soldier, the Legend
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(Prayer is) a fictitious consolation invented by those who have everything in order to keep those who have nothing contented. I belong to the bourgeoisie and I know the only reason my class bothers to show the lower classes that distant paradise full of ineffable pleasures that will one day be theirs is to divert attention from their own bulging coffers and from the abundance of their harvests.
- Eca De Queiroz
The Mandarin and Other Stories
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...Originally everything about a Greek or Christian building meant something, and in reference to a higher order of things. This atmosphere of inexhaustible meaningfulness hung about the building like a magic veil. Beauty entered the system only secondarily, impairing the basic feeling of uncanny sublimity, of sanctification by magic or the gods' nearness. At the most, beauty tempered the dread - but this dread was the prerequisite everywhere. What does the beauty of a building mean to us now? The same as the beautiful face of a mindless woman: something masklike.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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the believer claims to know, not just that God exists, but that his most detailed wishes are not merely knowable but actually known. Since religion drew its first breath when the species lived in utter ignorance and considerable fear, I hope I may be forgiven for declining to believe that another human being can tell me what to do, in the most intimate details of my life and mind, and to further dictate these terms as if acting as proxy for a supernatural entity.
- Christopher Hitchens
Is Christianity Good for the World?
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The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists--and that one has to pay them back with sacrifices and accomplishments; one thus recognizes a debt that constantly grows greater, since these forebears never cease, in their continued existence as powerful spirits, to accord the tribe new advantages and new strength.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
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Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
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...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
- Richard Rohr
Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps
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Lovelessness is a huge sin in the church. The four primary personalities in the New Testament- Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John- all four of them say that love is the most important thing. But the only time love really counts is when something unlovely happens.
- Chu Jeff
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
- Alain de Botton
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
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First-class religion teaches one how to love God without any motive. If I serve God for some profit, that is business-not love.
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Science of Self-Realization
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Strange to hear atheists say 'god' when having great sex.
- Toba Beta
Master of Stupidity
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When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we're lost.
- Wes Moore
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Logic kills. Faith burns. Better to be the one with the torch than the one on the pyre.
- Chris Galford
The Hollow March
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Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.
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But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say. Christ crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern Christianity is to crucify him again and again so that he can never get a word out of his mouth.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!
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I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
- A. Whitney Brown
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Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ‘straight’, ‘square’, and ‘flat’ the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture
- Isak Dinesen
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I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions’ stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.
- M.F. Moonzajer
LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
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At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitments may be sublime; to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.
- Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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The supernatural is not as it claims, for it is inherently unnatural; it seeks to separate us from our natural world.
- Joe Iacovino
In The Shadow Of The Sun
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It seems to me that religion is losing momentum and God is making a comeback.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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That was rather interesting,' Mercer said as he filled his coffee mug and passed the thermal carafe to John. 'What do you say for dinner? "Blessed be the serial killers, or else the devil would have no one to torment.
- Lynn Viehl
Dark Need
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Every religion should be in favor of humankind.
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You must not suppose that I would like you to profess religion without possessing it. A hypocrite is in my opinion one of the most detestable of beings. my opinion is, that every one should honestly and carefully investigate the Bible; and if he can believe it to be the word of God, to follow its teachings." - Brevet Major Thomas J. Jackson (1 March 1851)
- James I. Robertson Jr.
Stonewall Jackson : The Man, the Soldier, the Legend
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(Prayer is) a fictitious consolation invented by those who have everything in order to keep those who have nothing contented. I belong to the bourgeoisie and I know the only reason my class bothers to show the lower classes that distant paradise full of ineffable pleasures that will one day be theirs is to divert attention from their own bulging coffers and from the abundance of their harvests.
- Eca De Queiroz
The Mandarin and Other Stories
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...Originally everything about a Greek or Christian building meant something, and in reference to a higher order of things. This atmosphere of inexhaustible meaningfulness hung about the building like a magic veil. Beauty entered the system only secondarily, impairing the basic feeling of uncanny sublimity, of sanctification by magic or the gods' nearness. At the most, beauty tempered the dread - but this dread was the prerequisite everywhere. What does the beauty of a building mean to us now? The same as the beautiful face of a mindless woman: something masklike.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
the believer claims to know, not just that God exists, but that his most detailed wishes are not merely knowable but actually known. Since religion drew its first breath when the species lived in utter ignorance and considerable fear, I hope I may be forgiven for declining to believe that another human being can tell me what to do, in the most intimate details of my life and mind, and to further dictate these terms as if acting as proxy for a supernatural entity.
- Christopher Hitchens
Is Christianity Good for the World?
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The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists--and that one has to pay them back with sacrifices and accomplishments; one thus recognizes a debt that constantly grows greater, since these forebears never cease, in their continued existence as powerful spirits, to accord the tribe new advantages and new strength.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
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Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
- Richard Rohr
Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Lovelessness is a huge sin in the church. The four primary personalities in the New Testament- Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John- all four of them say that love is the most important thing. But the only time love really counts is when something unlovely happens.
- Chu Jeff
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
- Alain de Botton
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
First-class religion teaches one how to love God without any motive. If I serve God for some profit, that is business-not love.
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Science of Self-Realization
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Strange to hear atheists say 'god' when having great sex.
- Toba Beta
Master of Stupidity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we're lost.
- Wes Moore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Logic kills. Faith burns. Better to be the one with the torch than the one on the pyre.
- Chris Galford
The Hollow March
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Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.
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But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say. Christ crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern Christianity is to crucify him again and again so that he can never get a word out of his mouth.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!
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I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
- A. Whitney Brown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ‘straight’, ‘square’, and ‘flat’ the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture
- Isak Dinesen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions’ stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.
- M.F. Moonzajer
LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
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At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitments may be sublime; to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.
- Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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The supernatural is not as it claims, for it is inherently unnatural; it seeks to separate us from our natural world.
- Joe Iacovino
In The Shadow Of The Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It seems to me that religion is losing momentum and God is making a comeback.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That was rather interesting,' Mercer said as he filled his coffee mug and passed the thermal carafe to John. 'What do you say for dinner? "Blessed be the serial killers, or else the devil would have no one to torment.
- Lynn Viehl
Dark Need
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