Quotes on Deist

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.

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.

No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

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

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

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.

For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to ... all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer.

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