Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2009-01-04 Jan 2, 2009The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.~ Paul Bede JohnsonMost of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.~ Robert FrostFor whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.~ Sir Francis Bacon Jan 1, 2009I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.~ Charles Lamb'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.~ John KeatsThe village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.~ Patrick J. Buchanan Dec 31, 2008Belief means not wanting to know what is true.~ Friedrich NietzscheHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.~ H. G. WellsThe truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking. Not by accident does Genesis 3 make the father of knowledge a serpent -- slimy, sneaking and abominable. Since the earliest days the church as an organization has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was the apologist for the divine right of kings.~ H. L. Mencken Dec 30, 2008The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.~ George Bernard ShawLet them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.~ John AdamsNeither the trappings of robes, nor temples of stone, nor a fixed liturgy, nor an extensive literature or history is required to meet the test of beliefs cognizable under the Constitution as religious. So far as our law is concerned, one person's religious beliefs held for one day are presumptively entitled to the same protection as the beliefs of millions which have been shared for thousands of years.~ Judge Jack B. Weinstein Dec 29, 2008We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.~ Abraham LincolnLong before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors … had been unanimous in telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome were absolutely antagonistic to the principles which are the foundation stones of the Constitution of the United States of America.~ Charles Chiniquy[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.~ Hilaire BellocAt the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged, not any one sect. Any attempt to level and discard all religion would have been viewed with universal indignation.~ James Meacham Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print