Quotes on Theist

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.

The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would accept of truth by whomsoever offered -- that truth which we can all find, if we will but seek in things, not in words; in nature, not in human imagination; in our own hearts, not in temples made with hands.

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

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.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.