Religion Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about religion.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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English translation: The sculpted saints have exerted much greater influence in the world than the living ones.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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God prefers ordinary people, that's why He has made so many.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

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Men fear the same gods they have invented.

Ana María Matute

Ana María Matute

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It would seem like a real lack of courtesy if God did not exist.

William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham

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To pray to God with devotion, it is not necessary to believe in God according to the dogmas of any religion.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Conscience causes us to uncover ourselves, to denounce or accuse ourselves, and in the absence of witnesses, testifies against us.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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To judge great and noble things, it is necessary to possess a soul equally great and noble.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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We are very concerned with being good people according to God's law; we would not know how to be so according to ourselves.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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If triangles made a god, they would envision it with three sides.

The soul rests when it sheds its tears; and pain is satisfied with its weeping.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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I prefer to be wrong believing in a God who does not exist, than to be wrong not believing in a God who exists. Because if there is nothing afterwards, obviously I will never know it when I sink into eternal nothingness; but if there is something, if there is Someone, I will have to account for my attitude of rejection.