Atheism Quote by John Locke Download Open image “The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.” — John Locke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Church Claims Faith Heretic Keep the faith Men Positive atheism Taught Toleration
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“The heretics were never dishonest men; they were mistaken men. They should not be thought of as men who were deliberately setting out to… — David Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“The battle must be fought exactly as the battle of religious toleration was fought. And as in that case, so in this, a decay… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church. — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Earthly minds, like mud-walls, resist the strongest batteries: And though perhaps sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“To avoid this state of war (wherein there is no appeal but to heaven, and wherein every the least difference is apt to end,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“don’t let the things you don’t have prevent you from using the things you do have.” — John Locke Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image