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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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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
- Huston Smith
Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief
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If religion is true, one must believe. And if one chooses not to believe, one’s choice is marked under the category of a refusal, and is thus never really free: it has the duress of a recoil.” With literary belief, however, “one is always free to choose not to believe.” This, Wood argues, is the freedom of literature; it is what constitutes its “reality.
- James Wood
The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
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Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors.
- Ernst Bloch
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Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set who lived there, and the luxuries of civilization were known to them as little as its learning. They toiled hard all the week on the ungrateful soil that yielded them but a bare subsistence in return; they went regularly to mass in the little rock-set chapel on Sundays and saint’s days; believed implicitly all that monsieur le cure said to them, and many things which he did not say; and they took all the unknown, not as magnificent but as diabolical
- Eliza Lynn Linton
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Im Hain des Tempels und im Schatten der Zitadelle habe ich die Freiesten unter euch ihre Freiheit als Joch und Handschellen tragen sehen.
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If Allah wishes me to die, I shall die, if he does not, I shall not. Then what use is the safety?” “Damn you, India
- Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
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Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.
- Fred Hoyle
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Heaven was invented to make the poor endure hell on earth
- Anonymous
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He took a seat in the quiet cathedral, breathing in the musky, slightly cloying fragrance of a century’s worth of incense. It smelled of guilt and sin and a promise of forgiveness and a place in heaven, if you ate fish on Fridays.
- Louise Penny
The Black Wolf
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The case of Ballantyne's The Coral Island is instructive, for the author had never seen a coral island, or, indeed, a palm tree, or a coconut, and his novel is a construction out of his reading of other books, some of which are pillaged to the point of plagarism. The textual bricolage is matched by the ironic presentation of the imperial values which it is generally assumed the book exists to promote: a pirate by the name of 'Bloody Bill' is allowed to articulate how useful religion is to the advancement of trade (and plunder).
- Fiona McCulloch
The International Companion to the Scottish Novel
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God comes like a breeze. You cannot see it, but you can feel it. And you can be mmensely enriched and nourished by it. If somebody is open to you, they will also feel your bliss.
God cannot be believed in, and those who believed in God are deceiving themselves. A real trust in God is not a belief, it is an insight and experience. God has to be experienced. When you do not have an experience, you are open to experience. In that freedom something can transpire.
In that silence and emptiness, you are open for something from the beyond to transpire like a breeze. You cannot see it, but you will feel it. It has a freshness to it. You will feel the fragrance, and it will transform you.
Then God is a certainty to you. Then only God exists.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
The Way of the Heart
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To make holy the Name of God ... is to ask — with our lives and our prayers — that the Name of God be known and blessed by every man.
- Catholic Church
Compendium : Catechism of the Catholic Church
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When the telescope displaced the miracle, and the microscope unveiled the invisible, faith didn't evaporate; it merely retreated into the ever-shrinking pockets of human ignorance, proving itself a symptom, not a cure, for our fear of the unknown.
- Unknown Author
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The loudest prayers cannot replace the smallest microchip
- ‘Yemi Success, MD
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Human beings are often so rattled by their own very existence and simplistic consciousness of the world that any act so far outside of their realm of possibility will either delight them into worship, or disgust them into burning you down completely — socially, psychically, and in rarer instances, physically.
- Jason Daniel Chaplin
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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
- Stephen King
Storm of the Century
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No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"

"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.

"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"

"A pit full of fire."

"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"

"No, sir."

"What must you do to avoid it?"

I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything
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I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
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It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes.
- George Carlin
Brain Droppings
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The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.
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A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
- Ricky Gervais
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We all have the beast in us Bill, and it is up to us to control it.
- Leslie W.P. Garland
The Little Dog
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
- Erica Jong
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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
- Huston Smith
Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If religion is true, one must believe. And if one chooses not to believe, one’s choice is marked under the category of a refusal, and is thus never really free: it has the duress of a recoil.” With literary belief, however, “one is always free to choose not to believe.” This, Wood argues, is the freedom of literature; it is what constitutes its “reality.
- James Wood
The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors.
- Ernst Bloch
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Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set who lived there, and the luxuries of civilization were known to them as little as its learning. They toiled hard all the week on the ungrateful soil that yielded them but a bare subsistence in return; they went regularly to mass in the little rock-set chapel on Sundays and saint’s days; believed implicitly all that monsieur le cure said to them, and many things which he did not say; and they took all the unknown, not as magnificent but as diabolical
- Eliza Lynn Linton
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Im Hain des Tempels und im Schatten der Zitadelle habe ich die Freiesten unter euch ihre Freiheit als Joch und Handschellen tragen sehen.
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If Allah wishes me to die, I shall die, if he does not, I shall not. Then what use is the safety?” “Damn you, India
- Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
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Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.
- Fred Hoyle
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Heaven was invented to make the poor endure hell on earth
- Anonymous
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He took a seat in the quiet cathedral, breathing in the musky, slightly cloying fragrance of a century’s worth of incense. It smelled of guilt and sin and a promise of forgiveness and a place in heaven, if you ate fish on Fridays.
- Louise Penny
The Black Wolf
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The case of Ballantyne's The Coral Island is instructive, for the author had never seen a coral island, or, indeed, a palm tree, or a coconut, and his novel is a construction out of his reading of other books, some of which are pillaged to the point of plagarism. The textual bricolage is matched by the ironic presentation of the imperial values which it is generally assumed the book exists to promote: a pirate by the name of 'Bloody Bill' is allowed to articulate how useful religion is to the advancement of trade (and plunder).
- Fiona McCulloch
The International Companion to the Scottish Novel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God comes like a breeze. You cannot see it, but you can feel it. And you can be mmensely enriched and nourished by it. If somebody is open to you, they will also feel your bliss.
God cannot be believed in, and those who believed in God are deceiving themselves. A real trust in God is not a belief, it is an insight and experience. God has to be experienced. When you do not have an experience, you are open to experience. In that freedom something can transpire.
In that silence and emptiness, you are open for something from the beyond to transpire like a breeze. You cannot see it, but you will feel it. It has a freshness to it. You will feel the fragrance, and it will transform you.
Then God is a certainty to you. Then only God exists.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
The Way of the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To make holy the Name of God ... is to ask — with our lives and our prayers — that the Name of God be known and blessed by every man.
- Catholic Church
Compendium : Catechism of the Catholic Church
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the telescope displaced the miracle, and the microscope unveiled the invisible, faith didn't evaporate; it merely retreated into the ever-shrinking pockets of human ignorance, proving itself a symptom, not a cure, for our fear of the unknown.
- Unknown Author
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The loudest prayers cannot replace the smallest microchip
- ‘Yemi Success, MD
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human beings are often so rattled by their own very existence and simplistic consciousness of the world that any act so far outside of their realm of possibility will either delight them into worship, or disgust them into burning you down completely — socially, psychically, and in rarer instances, physically.
- Jason Daniel Chaplin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
- Stephen King
Storm of the Century
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"

"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.

"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"

"A pit full of fire."

"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"

"No, sir."

"What must you do to avoid it?"

I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything
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I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes.
- George Carlin
Brain Droppings
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The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
- Ricky Gervais
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We all have the beast in us Bill, and it is up to us to control it.
- Leslie W.P. Garland
The Little Dog
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
- Erica Jong
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
- Huston Smith
Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If religion is true, one must believe. And if one chooses not to believe, one’s choice is marked under the category of a refusal, and is thus never really free: it has the duress of a recoil.” With literary belief, however, “one is always free to choose not to believe.” This, Wood argues, is the freedom of literature; it is what constitutes its “reality.
- James Wood
The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors.
- Ernst Bloch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set who lived there, and the luxuries of civilization were known to them as little as its learning. They toiled hard all the week on the ungrateful soil that yielded them but a bare subsistence in return; they went regularly to mass in the little rock-set chapel on Sundays and saint’s days; believed implicitly all that monsieur le cure said to them, and many things which he did not say; and they took all the unknown, not as magnificent but as diabolical
- Eliza Lynn Linton
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Im Hain des Tempels und im Schatten der Zitadelle habe ich die Freiesten unter euch ihre Freiheit als Joch und Handschellen tragen sehen.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If Allah wishes me to die, I shall die, if he does not, I shall not. Then what use is the safety?” “Damn you, India
- Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.
- Fred Hoyle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Heaven was invented to make the poor endure hell on earth
- Anonymous
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He took a seat in the quiet cathedral, breathing in the musky, slightly cloying fragrance of a century’s worth of incense. It smelled of guilt and sin and a promise of forgiveness and a place in heaven, if you ate fish on Fridays.
- Louise Penny
The Black Wolf
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The case of Ballantyne's The Coral Island is instructive, for the author had never seen a coral island, or, indeed, a palm tree, or a coconut, and his novel is a construction out of his reading of other books, some of which are pillaged to the point of plagarism. The textual bricolage is matched by the ironic presentation of the imperial values which it is generally assumed the book exists to promote: a pirate by the name of 'Bloody Bill' is allowed to articulate how useful religion is to the advancement of trade (and plunder).
- Fiona McCulloch
The International Companion to the Scottish Novel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God comes like a breeze. You cannot see it, but you can feel it. And you can be mmensely enriched and nourished by it. If somebody is open to you, they will also feel your bliss.
God cannot be believed in, and those who believed in God are deceiving themselves. A real trust in God is not a belief, it is an insight and experience. God has to be experienced. When you do not have an experience, you are open to experience. In that freedom something can transpire.
In that silence and emptiness, you are open for something from the beyond to transpire like a breeze. You cannot see it, but you will feel it. It has a freshness to it. You will feel the fragrance, and it will transform you.
Then God is a certainty to you. Then only God exists.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
The Way of the Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To make holy the Name of God ... is to ask — with our lives and our prayers — that the Name of God be known and blessed by every man.
- Catholic Church
Compendium : Catechism of the Catholic Church
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the telescope displaced the miracle, and the microscope unveiled the invisible, faith didn't evaporate; it merely retreated into the ever-shrinking pockets of human ignorance, proving itself a symptom, not a cure, for our fear of the unknown.
- Unknown Author
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The loudest prayers cannot replace the smallest microchip
- ‘Yemi Success, MD
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human beings are often so rattled by their own very existence and simplistic consciousness of the world that any act so far outside of their realm of possibility will either delight them into worship, or disgust them into burning you down completely — socially, psychically, and in rarer instances, physically.
- Jason Daniel Chaplin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
- Stephen King
Storm of the Century
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"

"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.

"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"

"A pit full of fire."

"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"

"No, sir."

"What must you do to avoid it?"

I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes.
- George Carlin
Brain Droppings
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The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
- Ricky Gervais
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We all have the beast in us Bill, and it is up to us to control it.
- Leslie W.P. Garland
The Little Dog
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
- Erica Jong
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