Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Thomas PaineTags: christianity religion skepticism separation-of-church-and-state
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Thomas PaineTags: christianity religion skepticism separation-of-church-and-state
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.
Thomas PaineTags: science religion miracles skepticism
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas PaineMy own mind is my own church.
Thomas PaineTHESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated
Thomas PaineTags: 1776 december-23
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 PaineBut such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas PaineThe greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Thomas PaineTags: anger anger-management
It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.
Thomas PaineTags: politics-freedom-liberty
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