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Religion Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
- Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in…
- Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the…
- Revealed religion has no weight with me.
- Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.
- When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to…
- Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that…
- The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a…
- Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one…
- It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and…
- If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
- That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for…
- Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought to be harmed…
- As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them…
- I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall…
- When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see…
- History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious…
- Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.
- If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have not in their…
- Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be…
- The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
- All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the…
- To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
- The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
- In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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