“Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.”

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.

Christ is God clothed with human nature.

Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.

Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.

Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.

Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.

In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ‘ invasion, but a minimum of pain.

To imagine that “God moves in mysterious ways” is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.

Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.

The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God.

The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.