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 force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

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 in a man rather than…

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 Protestant church, nor by…

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wr…

Mais qu'un marchand de chameaux excite une sedition dans sa bourgade; qu'associe a quelques malheureux coracites il leur persuade qu'il s'entretient avec l'ang…