Deist Quotes
10 quotes by 8 authors
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Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the lean Levite went to sleep, And dreamed of tasting pork…
— Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that…
— Patrick Henry
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Not one of the first six [U.S.] presidents was an orthodox Christian. Most of the founders were Deists, who "doubted that Christ was a god"…
— Robert Sherrill
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For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or…
— N. T. Wright
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It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.
— Thomas Paine
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The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation…
— Thomas Paine
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The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the…
— Thomas Paine
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Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of…
— Peter Kreeft
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is…
— William Cowper
Who Wrote These Deist Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 10 Deist Quotes as follows: