Faith religion Quotes · Page 2

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds,…

— John Adams

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

— John Adams

“Beware the Sunday-morning faith that may get you through the week but not in heaven!”

— Mike Bryan

Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on…

— Rajneesh

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

— James Madison

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of…

— John Adams

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing…

— Benjamin Franklin

I have sworn upon the altar of god.

— Thomas Jefferson

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

— Thomas Jefferson

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is…

— Thomas Paine

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

— Epicurus

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

— Thomas Jefferson

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support…

— Thomas Jefferson

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half…

— Thomas Paine