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Letter "T" » Thomas Paine Quotes
«We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
compelled, doctrine, fables, forgeries, forgery, impositions, testament
«I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
approves, distress, firm, gather, in trouble, pursue, reflection, shrink, The Business
«Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man»
«For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly, and contradictory can be His work»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Books,
Perfection
| Keywords:
contradictories, contradictory, deity, disorderly, manifestly, obscure, permit, work permit
«The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief of this is called blasphemy»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
blasphemies, blasphemy, decreed, decreeing, disbelief, Laws, the book, The Word, voted, Word of God
«The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
approached, borders, greatly, Jonah, marvelous, nearer, swallowed, Swallowing, The Marvelous, The Story, whale, whales, whaling
«War ought to be no man's wish»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
«When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
calling, collection, contemptible, dishonor, dishonored, dishonoring, dishonors, grossest, gross out, History of the, paltry, tales, throughout
«The bishop who has answered me has been obliged to acknowledge the fact, that the Books that compose the NT, were voted by yeas and nays to be the word of God, as you now vote a law, by the Popish councils of Nicea and Laodocia, about 1,450 years ago.»
«Is it a fact that Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world, and how is it proved? If a God, he could not die, and as a man he could not redeem»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Christianity
| Keywords:
and how, died, Jesus, Jesus Christ, proved, redeem, redeems, sins
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