“Most of the Founders and Framers were Deists. Deism is a religion that believes in a God who really doesn’t give a… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The greatest trick Christianity ever pulled was convincing the world that Satan exists.” — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If the world is a Watch, as the Deists claim, then it is evidently two minutes behind. —James Beresford, The Miseries of… — Tad Tuleja Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Deism claims that God creates the universe and the laws of nature and then is hands-off, with everything that subsequently happens in… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“On the other side, Church spokesmen could scarcely become enthusiastic about Planck's deism, which omitted all reference to established religions and had… — J.L. Heilbron Copy Share Image
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“Narcissistic Optimistic Deism tells us that whatever we want to do or be, that's great. God is the great cheerleader in the… — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
“Pandeism: This is the belief that God created the universe, is now one with it, and so, is no longer a separate… — Alan Dawe Copy Share Image
“Mind, rather than emerging as a late outgrowth in the evolution of life, has existed always as the matrix, the source and… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“[On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] The answer is unknowable, but it may not be unreasonable to see him, at least in theological terms,… — Peter Loptson Copy Share Image
May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“This one god could be of the deistic or pantheistic sort. Deism might be superior in explaining why God has seemingly left… — Raphael Lataster Copy Share Image
Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“You desire to know something of my Religion. It is the first time I have been questioned upon it: But I do… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“ The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists . Deism was… — Farrell Till Copy Share Image
“In both instances of Franklin and Jefferson, revisionist writers have emphasized those aspects of their beliefs that are consistent with Christian faith,… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
“Besides (said he) do you not observe what a keen Edge Christian Faith puts upon the ill-nature of Divines, when they are… — William Stephens Copy Share Image
“I have generally been denominated a Deist, the reality of which I never disputed, being conscious I am no Christian , except… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
“For if you look over the State of Religion as it standeth in Christendom, there is no Church whatsoever which will accept… — William Stephens Copy Share Image
“{ When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Thomas Paine 's deism; a political associate,… — Roy Basler Copy Share Image
“Thus that Upright Judge, whose three Letters my Friend having read, did well approve of 'em, acknowledging, that with great Exactness he… — William Stephens Copy Share Image
“I remember one Gentleman objected to the Christian Faith, that it made Men insolent, quarrelsom and ill-natur'd. From whence I concluded, (as… — William Stephens Copy Share Image
“so Enlightenment philosophers developed a new form of theism, based entirely on reason and Newtonian science, which they called Deism.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Before the rise of Deism, Calvin condemned the pragmatic deism which relegated God to heaven and left the government of the world… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations. — Charles Hartshorne Copy Share Image
“My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.” — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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![“[On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] The answer is unknowable, but it may not be unreasonable to see him, at least in theological terms, as essentially a deist. He is a determinist: there are no miracles (the events so called being merely instances of infrequently occurring natural laws); Christ has no…” quote by Peter Loptson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6d/peter-loptson-269366_deism_on-gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz-the-answer_3128811.jpg)
![“May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b66/thomas-jefferson-43_assuming_may-our-declaration-of-independence-be-t_1692808.jpg)
![“[T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned defense of Deism called the Diegesis, has clearly proved all the heirarchical institutions of the Christians to be a close copy of those of the Essenians of Egypt.” quote by Godfrey Higgins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b6/godfrey-higgins-52829_christian_t-he-rev-r-taylor-a-m-the-deist-now-in-g_679803.jpg)
![“You desire to know something of my Religion. It is the first time I have been questioned upon it: But I do not take your Curiosity amiss, and shall endeavour in a few Words to gratify it... I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his [Jesus'] divinity ; tho' it is…” quote by Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3d/benjamin-franklin-65_deism_you-desire-to-know-something-of-my-relig_2012276.jpg)
