Bible Quote by John Locke

“[T]he Old Testament, [...] if considered as a general rule of conduct, would lead to consequences destructive of all principles of humanity and morality.”

— David Hume

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach…

— C. S. Lewis

To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common…

— Baron d'Holbach

“Show me a believing man, and I will show you a justified man, and, withal, a man who is never out of his Bible.…

— Alexander Whyte

“But what if the Bible was not God’s word? What if it was just a collection of books and letters written by men: expressing…

— Steve McRoberts

“If the Bible and other holy books were at all reliable sources of morality, good and bad religious people wouldn’t both be able to…

— David Silverman

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).”

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

“Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their actual morality…

— Steven Pinker

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content…

— Henry David Thoreau