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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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I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
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Topic: Religion
He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn't matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed and reinvented eternally across the world. I can't speak to that. What I do know? This is your story.
- Leanna Renee Hieber
The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker
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Topic: Religion
There are no perfect human beings and even those who we pray such as Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Krishna among others, were not perfect.
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Topic: Religion
O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")
- William Butler Yeats
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Topic: Religion
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in knowing Glory will live on. We speak of the martyrs in History but we cannot know the actual pain they suffered in their final living hours. They enter the realm of the mythic, but we must never forget these were men like ourselves. When their flesh is torn, they cry out. They suffer as you or I would suffer, although more bravely. Remember Christ. Although I am now an enemy to Joseph's legacy, I shudder when recalling his pain.
- David Ebershoff
The 19th Wife
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Topic: Religion
We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
- Seraphim Rose
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Topic: Religion
One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience.
- Royston Lambert
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Topic: Religion
[The haggadah] was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the Exodus story."
What do you mean?"
Well, from what you've told me, the book has survived the same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people tolerate difference, like Spain in the Convivencia, and everything's humming along: creative, prosperous. Then somehow this fear, this hate, this need to demonize 'the other' -- it just sort of rears up and smashes the whole society. Inquisition, Nazis, extremist Serb nationalists... same old, same old. It seems to me that the book, at this point, bears witness to all that.
- Geraldine Brooks
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Topic: Religion
All religions are right in their own way
- Andy Weir
The Egg
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Topic: Religion
XXX
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God.
Topic: Religion
Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence...and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
- Irvin D. Yalom
The Schopenhauer Cure
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Topic: Religion
One day I realized, without God, nothing matters. So, I asked Him into my heart.
- Esther Earl
This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
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Topic: Religion
The teachings of a religion should influence the personality and daily conduct of each believer. Thus, each person's conduct will normally be a reflection, to a greater or lesser degree, of that one's religious background. What effect does your religion have on you? Does your religion produce a kinder person? More generous, honest, humble, tolerant, and compassionate?
- Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
Mankind’s Search for God
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Topic: Religion
So you are Catholic? Didn't know that.
I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I envy people who believe in this crap. They don't worry about the meaning of life and things, whereas I do.
- Aleksandar Hemon
The Lazarus Project
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Topic: Religion
XXX
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I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Topic: Religion
You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile.

The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. "And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they shouldn't talk to me.
- Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
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Topic: Religion
Zoroastrianism? Oh, there’s never been but a few hundred thousand of them at any one time, mostly located in Iran and India, but that’s it. The one true faith. If you’re not a Zoroastrian, I’m afraid you are bound for Hell.”

The man looked stunned and shocked. "It's not fair."

The demon gave a mirthful laugh. “Well, it was fair when you were sending all the Chinese to Hell who had never heard of Jesus. Wasn’t it?
- Steven L. Peck
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
...While grace does do away with the need for good works, it’s grace which also makes good works truly possible. If good works don’t play into your salvation, then doing them is a sheer act of love, both for those they benefit and to God. It’s a way of solving the conundrum of how can a good work be truly good if the doer of the work expects to benefit from it in any way."
-David Clark
- David Clark
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Topic: Religion
Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Frederick Buechner
The Magnificent Defeat
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Topic: Religion
There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.
- Frederick Buechner
The Magnificent Defeat
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Topic: Religion
With the death of what Sydney Smith described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and uncertain messages, all civilised people have to be ethicists. We must work out our own salvation with diligence based on what we believe.
- P.D. James
The Private Patient
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Topic: Religion
Danger past, God is forgotten.
- Thomas Fuller
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Topic: Religion
And the story is told that a young woman taking an examination for a Communist party post was unsure of the answer to a question asking the inscription on a certain monument. She wrote the words of Marx quoted above and when the examination was over hurried to the monument to check. Reading the inscription "Religion is the opiate of the people," she fell to her knees, saying, "Thank God.
- Roberson
Transforming Russia from Empire to Commonwealth 1682-1991
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
The worship of power is an old religion.
- George Santayana
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn't matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed and reinvented eternally across the world. I can't speak to that. What I do know? This is your story.
- Leanna Renee Hieber
The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
There are no perfect human beings and even those who we pray such as Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Krishna among others, were not perfect.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")
- William Butler Yeats
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in knowing Glory will live on. We speak of the martyrs in History but we cannot know the actual pain they suffered in their final living hours. They enter the realm of the mythic, but we must never forget these were men like ourselves. When their flesh is torn, they cry out. They suffer as you or I would suffer, although more bravely. Remember Christ. Although I am now an enemy to Joseph's legacy, I shudder when recalling his pain.
- David Ebershoff
The 19th Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
- Seraphim Rose
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience.
- Royston Lambert
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
[The haggadah] was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the Exodus story."
What do you mean?"
Well, from what you've told me, the book has survived the same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people tolerate difference, like Spain in the Convivencia, and everything's humming along: creative, prosperous. Then somehow this fear, this hate, this need to demonize 'the other' -- it just sort of rears up and smashes the whole society. Inquisition, Nazis, extremist Serb nationalists... same old, same old. It seems to me that the book, at this point, bears witness to all that.
- Geraldine Brooks
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
All religions are right in their own way
- Andy Weir
The Egg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God.
Topic: Religion
Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence...and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
- Irvin D. Yalom
The Schopenhauer Cure
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
One day I realized, without God, nothing matters. So, I asked Him into my heart.
- Esther Earl
This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
The teachings of a religion should influence the personality and daily conduct of each believer. Thus, each person's conduct will normally be a reflection, to a greater or lesser degree, of that one's religious background. What effect does your religion have on you? Does your religion produce a kinder person? More generous, honest, humble, tolerant, and compassionate?
- Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
Mankind’s Search for God
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
So you are Catholic? Didn't know that.
I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I envy people who believe in this crap. They don't worry about the meaning of life and things, whereas I do.
- Aleksandar Hemon
The Lazarus Project
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Topic: Religion
You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile.

The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. "And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they shouldn't talk to me.
- Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
Zoroastrianism? Oh, there’s never been but a few hundred thousand of them at any one time, mostly located in Iran and India, but that’s it. The one true faith. If you’re not a Zoroastrian, I’m afraid you are bound for Hell.”

The man looked stunned and shocked. "It's not fair."

The demon gave a mirthful laugh. “Well, it was fair when you were sending all the Chinese to Hell who had never heard of Jesus. Wasn’t it?
- Steven L. Peck
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
...While grace does do away with the need for good works, it’s grace which also makes good works truly possible. If good works don’t play into your salvation, then doing them is a sheer act of love, both for those they benefit and to God. It’s a way of solving the conundrum of how can a good work be truly good if the doer of the work expects to benefit from it in any way."
-David Clark
- David Clark
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Frederick Buechner
The Magnificent Defeat
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.
- Frederick Buechner
The Magnificent Defeat
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
With the death of what Sydney Smith described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and uncertain messages, all civilised people have to be ethicists. We must work out our own salvation with diligence based on what we believe.
- P.D. James
The Private Patient
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
Danger past, God is forgotten.
- Thomas Fuller
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
And the story is told that a young woman taking an examination for a Communist party post was unsure of the answer to a question asking the inscription on a certain monument. She wrote the words of Marx quoted above and when the examination was over hurried to the monument to check. Reading the inscription "Religion is the opiate of the people," she fell to her knees, saying, "Thank God.
- Roberson
Transforming Russia from Empire to Commonwealth 1682-1991
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
The worship of power is an old religion.
- George Santayana
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn't matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed and reinvented eternally across the world. I can't speak to that. What I do know? This is your story.
- Leanna Renee Hieber
The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
There are no perfect human beings and even those who we pray such as Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Krishna among others, were not perfect.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")
- William Butler Yeats
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in knowing Glory will live on. We speak of the martyrs in History but we cannot know the actual pain they suffered in their final living hours. They enter the realm of the mythic, but we must never forget these were men like ourselves. When their flesh is torn, they cry out. They suffer as you or I would suffer, although more bravely. Remember Christ. Although I am now an enemy to Joseph's legacy, I shudder when recalling his pain.
- David Ebershoff
The 19th Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
- Seraphim Rose
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience.
- Royston Lambert
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
[The haggadah] was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the Exodus story."
What do you mean?"
Well, from what you've told me, the book has survived the same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people tolerate difference, like Spain in the Convivencia, and everything's humming along: creative, prosperous. Then somehow this fear, this hate, this need to demonize 'the other' -- it just sort of rears up and smashes the whole society. Inquisition, Nazis, extremist Serb nationalists... same old, same old. It seems to me that the book, at this point, bears witness to all that.
- Geraldine Brooks
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
All religions are right in their own way
- Andy Weir
The Egg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God.
Topic: Religion
Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence...and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
- Irvin D. Yalom
The Schopenhauer Cure
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
One day I realized, without God, nothing matters. So, I asked Him into my heart.
- Esther Earl
This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
The teachings of a religion should influence the personality and daily conduct of each believer. Thus, each person's conduct will normally be a reflection, to a greater or lesser degree, of that one's religious background. What effect does your religion have on you? Does your religion produce a kinder person? More generous, honest, humble, tolerant, and compassionate?
- Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
Mankind’s Search for God
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
So you are Catholic? Didn't know that.
I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I envy people who believe in this crap. They don't worry about the meaning of life and things, whereas I do.
- Aleksandar Hemon
The Lazarus Project
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Topic: Religion
You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile.

The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. "And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they shouldn't talk to me.
- Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
Zoroastrianism? Oh, there’s never been but a few hundred thousand of them at any one time, mostly located in Iran and India, but that’s it. The one true faith. If you’re not a Zoroastrian, I’m afraid you are bound for Hell.”

The man looked stunned and shocked. "It's not fair."

The demon gave a mirthful laugh. “Well, it was fair when you were sending all the Chinese to Hell who had never heard of Jesus. Wasn’t it?
- Steven L. Peck
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
...While grace does do away with the need for good works, it’s grace which also makes good works truly possible. If good works don’t play into your salvation, then doing them is a sheer act of love, both for those they benefit and to God. It’s a way of solving the conundrum of how can a good work be truly good if the doer of the work expects to benefit from it in any way."
-David Clark
- David Clark
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Frederick Buechner
The Magnificent Defeat
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.
- Frederick Buechner
The Magnificent Defeat
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
With the death of what Sydney Smith described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and uncertain messages, all civilised people have to be ethicists. We must work out our own salvation with diligence based on what we believe.
- P.D. James
The Private Patient
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
Danger past, God is forgotten.
- Thomas Fuller
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
And the story is told that a young woman taking an examination for a Communist party post was unsure of the answer to a question asking the inscription on a certain monument. She wrote the words of Marx quoted above and when the examination was over hurried to the monument to check. Reading the inscription "Religion is the opiate of the people," she fell to her knees, saying, "Thank God.
- Roberson
Transforming Russia from Empire to Commonwealth 1682-1991
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
The worship of power is an old religion.
- George Santayana
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
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