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God Quotes by Thomas Paine
- The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to…
- ...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of…
- 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.
- Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called…
- The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
- Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
- I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
- As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It…
- 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…
- The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which…
- I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will…
- The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of…
- The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
- A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve
- The choicest gift of God [is] the gift of reason.
- It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.
- But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even…
- That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the…
- There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea…
- Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
- Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
- It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
- That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
- Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion…
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- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi