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Belief Quotes by Thomas Paine
- The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or…
- It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a…
- It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
- The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult…
- We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins.…
- In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.
- Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
- Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to…
- I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by…
- Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate…
- It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
- Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has…
- What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the…
- No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being…
- For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly,…
- Is it a fact that Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world, and how is it proved? If a God, he could not…
- It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has…
More Belief Quotes
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already… — Richard Bach
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach