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Book 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.
- The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
- When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales…
- If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood.
- There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are…
- Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.
- As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions…
- 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…
- 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,…
- The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief of…
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