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Religious Quotes by Thomas Paine
- The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
- This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,…
- The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years,…
- But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men…
- As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It…
- We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins.…
- It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend.…
- The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
- I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I…
- I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures…
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- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- 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
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila