100+ (BEST) Religion Quotes will Change Your View on Life

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This is where you can find the best quotes ever said or written about religion, spirituality, God and Jesus.

We are gathering here all kinds of different religious quotes. They may not always be positive or negative but they always contain a very strong message and (if you’re open-minded) they can help us learn important lessons about life.

There are a number of religion quotes by various people, from their experience and observation of religious facts and beliefs. These quotes have very good thoughts and are worth reading.

Religion Quotes

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

A list of all quotes from religion is included at the bottom of the page.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. -Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. -C. S. Lewis

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is. -Albert Camus

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. -C. S. Lewis

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness. -Dalai Lama

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. –Buddha

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness. -Dalai Lama

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. -George Bernard Shaw

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. -Francis of Assisi

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. -Khalil Gibran

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. -Friedrich Nietzsche

This is God’s world, not Satan’s. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians. -Gary North

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone. -Abu Bakar Bashir

The Son of God became man so that we might become God. -Athanasius

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. -Abraham Joshua Heschel

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. -Saint Ambrose

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. -Frederick Douglass

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls. -William Pennington

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation. -Philip Schaff

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. -Paul Tournier

Love and Religion Quotes

Love and religion quotes are the most popular quotes of all times. Love is the strongest bond that connects people together, no matter what sex they are. Love gives courage to face every fear irrespective of all calamities.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. -John Morley

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being. -Orson Pratt

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul. -Johannes Tauler

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. -Anita Diament

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. -Mary Garden

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -Albert Einstein

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. -Ronald Reagan

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. -Thomas Jefferson

I was raised Catholic, but my father’s people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. -Aaron Neville

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. -Abraham Lincoln

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion. -Albert Einstein

True religion is real living living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness. -Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion. -Albert Einstein

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. -Dalai Lama

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. -Albert Einstein

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. -Albert Einstein

We are punished by our sins, not for them. -Elbert Hubbard

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. -Dalai Lama

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. -Swami Vivekananda

Religion Quotes in English

There are a lot of religions in this world, but the main aim of them is to attain eternal peace and happiness for mankind. God created this world and gave us freedom to choose everything we want to do with our lives.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you. -Jesus Christ

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion. -Dalai Lama

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. -Pope John Paul II

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. -Napoleon Bonaparte

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. -Henry Ward Beecher

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known. -Blaise Pascal

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -Jesus Christ

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. -Martin Luther

Wonder is the basis of worship. -Thomas Carlyle

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. -Marcus Tullius Cicero

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me. -Dwight L. Moody

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things. -Henry Ward Beecher

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. -Calvin Coolidge

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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. -Joseph Ratzinger

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way. -Thomas Aquinas

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. -Paul Valery

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. -Karl Barth

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. -Isaac Bashevis Singer

Religion Quotes about Life

Life is full of surprises and you can never predict what is coming next. It often brings new and unforeseen circumstances that turns your world upside down. Often in such moments, we look up to God to help us handle them. And religion quotes come in handy.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her. -Arthur C. Clarke

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve. -George W. Bush

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. -Hans Urs von Balthasar

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. -Bodhidharma

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. -Louis Kronenberger

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. -John Burroughs

Teach us to give and not to count the cost. -Saint Ignatius

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. -E. Stanley Jones

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil… I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life. -Moses

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. -Robert Browning

My life was changed in one breath from God. -Donna Summer

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. -Alexander Chase

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. -Philip James Bailey

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. -George A. Smith

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. -James Larkin

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. -Saint Augustine

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can – namely, surrender our will and fulfill God’s will in us. -Saint Teresa of Avila

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn’t had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. -Octavia Butler

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. -Dwight L. Moody

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. -Edmund Burke

Quotes Religion and Morality

Religious quotes are inspirational quotes about religion, morality, and religious advice. These quotes talk about religious beliefs and how they affect certain aspects of a person’s life.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. -William Blake

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. -Galileo Galilei

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. -Swami Vivekananda

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. -Richard Dawkins

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. -Oswald Chambers

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God. -Albert Einstein

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. -Khalil Gibran

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. -Theodore Roosevelt

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. -Meister Eckhart

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. -Helen Keller

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. -Socrates

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. -Desmond Tutu

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -Napoleon Bonaparte

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths. -Muhammad Ali

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. -Francis of Assisi

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. -Mahatma Gandhi

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It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. -Helen Keller

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -Galileo Galilei

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. -Thomas Paine

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. -Henry David Thoreau

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that. -Joseph Campbell

Final Words

Today’s article comes in the form of a decent sized list of quotes about religion, faith and morality. This is not a definitive collection of quotes, but I thought it was worth sharing some of the more interesting quotes.

Religion quotes are part of our daily lives. We look at them, hear them and sometimes we even use them. But how many of us actually stop to think about the serious meanings that lie behind each one of those quotes? How many of us pray and try and visualize the real meaning behind these quotes?

Our religion is a way for us to honor those who have gone before us and help those who will come after. Quotes about religion are an important part of any religious person’s life.

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