They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the ….

If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense..

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?.

Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his foreh….

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothin….

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination.

With soap, baptism is a good thing..

If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend..

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant..

If there is a God, there should be no slaves..

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven..

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences..

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so..

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?.

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, wi….

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon..

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom..

Fear is religion, courage is science..

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man..

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart..