Believe Quote by Thomas Paine

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

— N. T. Wright

“The liberality of the age, or in other words the weakening of the obstinate prejudice, which makes men unable to see what is before…

— Christopher Hitchens

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, say Smith and Denton, seems to be “colonizing many historical religious traditions and, almost without anyone noticing, converting believers in the…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence…

— Peter Kreeft

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“God's Incarnation opens the way to man's deification. To be deified is, more specifically, to be “christified”: the divine likeness that we are called…

— Kallistos Ware

“Let us remind ourselves of the terminology. A theist believes in a supernatural intelligence who, in addition to his main work of creating the…

— Richard Dawkins

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind…

— Ninon de L'Enclos

“Pantheists don’t believe in a supernatural God at all, but use the word God as a non-supernatural synonym for Nature, or for the Universe,…

— Richard Dawkins

To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such…

— Alvin Plantinga

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it,…

— Blaise Pascal