Belief Quotes by Thomas Paine

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

— Thomas Paine

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

— Thomas Paine

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a…

— Thomas Paine

Is it a fact that Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world, and how is it proved? If a God,…

— Thomas Paine

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

— Thomas Paine

What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to…

— Thomas Paine

Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word…

— Thomas Paine

We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up…

— Thomas Paine

No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief…

— Thomas Paine

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the…

— Thomas Paine

For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so…

— Thomas Paine

In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the…

— Thomas Paine

The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom…

— Thomas Paine

It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no…

— Thomas Paine

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is…

— Thomas Paine

“That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not…

— Thomas Paine

Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the…

— Thomas Paine

The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things.…

— Thomas Paine

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,…

— Thomas Paine

“Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, should be…

— Thomas Paine

“The story of the angel announcing what the church calls the immaculate conception, is not so much as mentioned in the books…

— Thomas Paine

“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin…

— Thomas Paine

“Though it is not a direct article of the christian system that this world that we inhabit is the whole of the…

— Thomas Paine

“When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without…

— Thomas Paine