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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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Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Ethics
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Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail,' but it has nothing to do with morals, only with the implied juvenile threat of having a tantrum unless everyone else gives in.
- N.T. Wright
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People who demand signs never believe them when they come.
- Michael Card
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Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point?
- R.A. Salvatore
The Ghost King
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Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over our world.
- Sam Harris
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
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We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments.
- Christopher Hitchens
Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
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Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world to be as simple as they are.
- Tim Kreider
Twilight of the Assholes
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In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists).
The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
The Only Owner of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)
You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help.
Guide us to the Straight Way...
The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray.
(The Qur'an- Surah Al-Fatihah)
- Anonymous
القرآن الكريم
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Love is the theme of all religions but making it commercial is satanic”.
- Dr. Amit Abraham
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When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln
- Bruce Weinstein
Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good
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(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.
- Harold Bloom
Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate
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The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.
- Georges Rodenbach
The Bells of Bruges
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You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated.
"Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!
- Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars
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Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.
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We must praise the Lord,” Patricius said. “His ways are sometimes unfathomable, but our aspiration has been granted.
- Rowena Kinread
The Missionary
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We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.
- E.M. Forster
Howards End
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The doctrine of the bodily resurrection of the dead at the end of time originated about two centuries before the life of Jesus, and by his day it had become a common feature of Jewish thought. Later, at the hands of Christians, it came to be transformed into a teaching of postmortem rewards and punishments, the ideas of heaven and hell.
- Bart D. Ehrman
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
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Perhaps it is natural for the god of the poor to be akin to the god of the dead, for there is something about poverty that smells of death
- Zora Neale Hurston
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
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I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend eternity, which is a very long time, in some afterlife. What kind of silly God judges you for eternity based on some small period of time here?
- Eric Jorgenson
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
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I believe that to worship nature is a religious duty. I see in nature the fullest revelation of the Divinity, and my faith is that only by acceptance of this revelation and by striving to realise it in all its perfection can I prove my worship to be sincere.
- Philip de László
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Look at that blacksmith, for instance,” went on Father Brown calmly; “a good man, but not a Christian — hard, imperious, unforgiving. Well, his Scotch religion was made up by men who prayed on hills and high crags, and learnt to look down on the world more than to look up at heaven. Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
- G.K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
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Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose.
- Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace
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Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.
- Salman Rushdie
Joseph Anton: A Memoir
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They say that God makes problems
Just to see what you can stand
Before you do as the devil pleases
Give up the thing you love
- Elliott Smith
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Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Ethics
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Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail,' but it has nothing to do with morals, only with the implied juvenile threat of having a tantrum unless everyone else gives in.
- N.T. Wright
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People who demand signs never believe them when they come.
- Michael Card
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point?
- R.A. Salvatore
The Ghost King
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Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over our world.
- Sam Harris
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments.
- Christopher Hitchens
Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world to be as simple as they are.
- Tim Kreider
Twilight of the Assholes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists).
The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
The Only Owner of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)
You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help.
Guide us to the Straight Way...
The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray.
(The Qur'an- Surah Al-Fatihah)
- Anonymous
القرآن الكريم
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Love is the theme of all religions but making it commercial is satanic”.
- Dr. Amit Abraham
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When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln
- Bruce Weinstein
Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.
- Harold Bloom
Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.
- Georges Rodenbach
The Bells of Bruges
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated.
"Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!
- Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We must praise the Lord,” Patricius said. “His ways are sometimes unfathomable, but our aspiration has been granted.
- Rowena Kinread
The Missionary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.
- E.M. Forster
Howards End
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The doctrine of the bodily resurrection of the dead at the end of time originated about two centuries before the life of Jesus, and by his day it had become a common feature of Jewish thought. Later, at the hands of Christians, it came to be transformed into a teaching of postmortem rewards and punishments, the ideas of heaven and hell.
- Bart D. Ehrman
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perhaps it is natural for the god of the poor to be akin to the god of the dead, for there is something about poverty that smells of death
- Zora Neale Hurston
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend eternity, which is a very long time, in some afterlife. What kind of silly God judges you for eternity based on some small period of time here?
- Eric Jorgenson
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe that to worship nature is a religious duty. I see in nature the fullest revelation of the Divinity, and my faith is that only by acceptance of this revelation and by striving to realise it in all its perfection can I prove my worship to be sincere.
- Philip de László
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Look at that blacksmith, for instance,” went on Father Brown calmly; “a good man, but not a Christian — hard, imperious, unforgiving. Well, his Scotch religion was made up by men who prayed on hills and high crags, and learnt to look down on the world more than to look up at heaven. Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
- G.K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
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Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose.
- Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace
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Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.
- Salman Rushdie
Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They say that God makes problems
Just to see what you can stand
Before you do as the devil pleases
Give up the thing you love
- Elliott Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Ethics
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail,' but it has nothing to do with morals, only with the implied juvenile threat of having a tantrum unless everyone else gives in.
- N.T. Wright
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People who demand signs never believe them when they come.
- Michael Card
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point?
- R.A. Salvatore
The Ghost King
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Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over our world.
- Sam Harris
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments.
- Christopher Hitchens
Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world to be as simple as they are.
- Tim Kreider
Twilight of the Assholes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists).
The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
The Only Owner of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)
You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help.
Guide us to the Straight Way...
The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray.
(The Qur'an- Surah Al-Fatihah)
- Anonymous
القرآن الكريم
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Love is the theme of all religions but making it commercial is satanic”.
- Dr. Amit Abraham
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln
- Bruce Weinstein
Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.
- Harold Bloom
Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.
- Georges Rodenbach
The Bells of Bruges
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated.
"Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!
- Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We must praise the Lord,” Patricius said. “His ways are sometimes unfathomable, but our aspiration has been granted.
- Rowena Kinread
The Missionary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.
- E.M. Forster
Howards End
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The doctrine of the bodily resurrection of the dead at the end of time originated about two centuries before the life of Jesus, and by his day it had become a common feature of Jewish thought. Later, at the hands of Christians, it came to be transformed into a teaching of postmortem rewards and punishments, the ideas of heaven and hell.
- Bart D. Ehrman
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perhaps it is natural for the god of the poor to be akin to the god of the dead, for there is something about poverty that smells of death
- Zora Neale Hurston
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend eternity, which is a very long time, in some afterlife. What kind of silly God judges you for eternity based on some small period of time here?
- Eric Jorgenson
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe that to worship nature is a religious duty. I see in nature the fullest revelation of the Divinity, and my faith is that only by acceptance of this revelation and by striving to realise it in all its perfection can I prove my worship to be sincere.
- Philip de László
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Look at that blacksmith, for instance,” went on Father Brown calmly; “a good man, but not a Christian — hard, imperious, unforgiving. Well, his Scotch religion was made up by men who prayed on hills and high crags, and learnt to look down on the world more than to look up at heaven. Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
- G.K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose.
- Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.
- Salman Rushdie
Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They say that God makes problems
Just to see what you can stand
Before you do as the devil pleases
Give up the thing you love
- Elliott Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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