Quotes on Deism

Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them.

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.