Quote #39
It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.
More from Thomas Paine
- I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Prote…
- What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the …
- The word of god is the creation we behold and it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh univ…
- As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism - a sort of religious denial of God. It professes to believe …
- ...for what is the amount of all his prayers but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? It is as …
- That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the stu…
- The doctrine of redemption is founded on a mere pecuniary idea corresponding to that of a debt which another person might pay; and as this …
- The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in which they stand in the…