Thomas Paine Quotes

I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

We have preserved the Book, and the Book has preserved us.

Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.

Saying that you don't believe in magic but do believe in god is a bit like saying you don't have sex with dogs, except labradors.

Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

I walk with God, and He protects me. That may very well be true. I don't mean to make that sound like a joke, in case He is in charge.

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.

I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.

Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!

The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet.

Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.

When a scientist says he believes the Bible--that doesnt give me anymore more faith in the Bible that gives me more faith in the scientist.

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.

There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the Homeric god. I cannot prove that either the Christian god or the Homeric gods do not exist, but I do not think that their existence is an alternative that is sufficiently probable to be worth serious consideration.