Religions & Spirituality Quotes (2350 Quotes)
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- All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Pale Fire")
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- He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.
(W. Paul Young, "The Shack")
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- Religion must use law to empower itself and control the people who they need in order to survive.
(W. Paul Young, "The Shack")
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- It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.
(William Faulkner, "The Sound and the Fury")
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- I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- Religion is more than rite and ritual.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- We are all born like Catholics, aren't we-in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.
(Zadie Smith, "White Teeth")
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- When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
(Zadie Smith, "White Teeth")
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- She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.
(Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway")
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- Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker's.
(Virginia Woolf, "Orlando")
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- And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia")
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- Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
(Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway")
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- It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite expanse of creation they have an uncontrollable urge to put something in the way
(Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods")
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- The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go
(Stephen King, "The Gunslinger")
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