Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
Quotations
Faith
For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it’s okay to remain a radical atheist – it’s absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart – then no problem.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "Dalai Lama Xiv"
Give to faith the things which belong to faith.
-Francis Bacon
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
-Benjamin Franklin
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
-Benjamin Franklin
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
-Havelock Ellis
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
