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Religion Quotes by Stephen King

39 Religion quotes by Stephen King

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Human beings can turn insane when they pick sides, creating reasons to hurt each other. Some quotes show that when faith feels broken, people turn to a strong declaration like ‘Thy will be done’ for comfort. Another quote warns that religious mania can claim to explain everything, turning belief into a powerful but risky explanation.

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“I guess all religions are weird,’ Eddie said now. But powerful, his mind added, almost magical …”

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“When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-”

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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants.

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The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.

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My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

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“Resurrection... ah, there's a word (that you should put right the fuck out of your mind and you know it).”

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It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

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“The only two useful art forms are religion and stories.”

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“Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented.”

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“There is really nothing so comforting to the beaten of spirit or the broken of skull than a good strong dose of…

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“The church is more than a bundle of ideals, as these younger fellows seem to believe. It’s more than a spiritual Boy…

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As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up…

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As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the…

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“One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so…

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“I'm not laughing at you guys," King said. "It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.”

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“The committee won't help you, it won't help anyone, the committee is the old way, he laughs at your committee because it's…

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“Every man or woman who loves, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He…

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Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only…

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“You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and…

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“Mia shrugged. “You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails…

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I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people…

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“Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything…

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Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it…

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If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the…

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Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing,…

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I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

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“He said the mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.”

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“The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go”

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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

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I am religious in the sense that I believe in God and I believe that there is an abiding logical spirit that…

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“He was only the second or third in his sprawling family (their religion, Skip once said, was Irish Alcoholic) to ever go…

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“No one was there – or if there was, He/It was cowering from her. God had turned His face away, and why…

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As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light…

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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the…

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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the…

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I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us,…

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“Henry had already gotten his deer, a good-sized doe, and Jonesy had an idea Pete cared a lot more about making sure…

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When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through…

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“I discovered something that night that most people never have to learn: murder is sin, murder is damnation (surely of one’s own…

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“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”