Believe Quotes by Thomas Paine

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.

— Thomas Paine

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and…

— Thomas Paine

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in…

— Thomas Paine

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

— Thomas Paine

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all…

— Thomas Paine

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

— 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

I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is…

— Thomas Paine

The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it…

— Thomas Paine

It is, I believe, impossible to find in any story upon record so many and such glaring absurdities, contradictions, and falsehoods, as…

— Thomas Paine

There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other…

— Thomas Paine

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe,…

— Thomas Paine

I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other…

— 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

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they…

— 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

Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was…

— Thomas Paine

It is often said in the Bible that God spake unto Moses, but how do you know that God spake unto Moses?…

— Thomas Paine

As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of…

— Thomas Paine

Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for…

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Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have…

— Thomas Paine

One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit;…

— Thomas Paine

...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself.…

— Thomas Paine

The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always…

— 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

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let…

— Thomas Paine

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have…

— Thomas Paine

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or…

— Thomas Paine

“I believe in the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist of doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to…

— Thomas Paine

To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith…

— Thomas Paine

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of…

— Thomas Paine

The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,…

— Thomas Paine

Now, which am I to believe, a book that any impostor might make and call the Word of God, or the creation…

— Thomas Paine

As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial…

— Thomas Paine

Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that…

— Thomas Paine

It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that…

— Thomas Paine