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Christian Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.
- The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
- Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting…
- To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
- He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people…
- I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the…
- The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of…
- Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I…
- The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is…
- Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given…
- Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.
- I am a real Christian - that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.
- To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only…
- The First Amendment has created a wall of separation between the church and the State. But that wall is one directional. It is to keep…
- Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of…
- All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
- The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a…
- The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
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- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
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