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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, line 637
- God
Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 1
- Fear
The book of Genesis is a male declaration of independence from the ancient mother-cults. Its challenge to nature, so sexist to modern ears, marks one of the crucial moments in western history.
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 40
- History
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 any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine1737–1809
- Anti-Religion
My mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine1737–1809The Age of Reason (1794), Part I (1794), 1. The Author’s Profession of Faith
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Thomas Paine1737–1809
- Christianity
Religion has two principal enemies, fanaticism and infidelity, or that which is called atheism. The first requires to be combated by reason and morality, the other by natural philosophy.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
- Atheism
The atheist who affects to reason, and the fanatic who rejects reason, plunge themselves alike into inextricable difficulties.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
- Atheism
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal1623–1662
- Anti-Religion
- Good & Evil
I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.
Mike Penceborn 1959Vice-presidential acceptance speech, Republican National Convention (20 July 2016)
- Christianity
- Politics
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn1644–1718No Cross, No Crown (1682)
- Christianity
- Success
It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any.
William Penn1644–1718Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I, 535
Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
William Penn1644–1718Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), nos. 551–553
- God
- Love
Going to church doesn’t make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
- Christianity
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
- Charity
- Christianity