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Quotes from Discourse to the Theophilanthropists — Thomas Paine

1737–1809 England

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The universe is composed of matter, and, as a system, is sustained by motion.

Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

To God, and not to man, are all men to account for their belief.

Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

The atheist who affects to reason, and the fanatic who rejects reason, plunge themselves alike into inextricable difficulties.

Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

The one is a half-rational of whom there is some hope, the other a visionary to whom we must be charitable.

Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

The Theophilanthropists believe in the existence of God, and the immortality of the soul.

Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

We profess, and we proclaim in peace, the pure, unmixed, comfortable, and rational belief of a God, as manifested to us in the universe.

Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

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.

Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

The universe is the bible of a true Theophilanthropist. It is there that he reads of God.

Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

The Theophilanthropists do not call themselves the disciples of such or such a man. They avail themselves of the wise precepts that have been transmitted by writers of all countries and in all ages.

Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

In things of this kind it sees something which it calls a natural cause, but none of the causes it sees is the cause of that motion which preserves the solar system.

Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

It must be in something that man could not make, that we must seek evidence for our belief, and that something is the universe; the true bible; the inimitable word, of God.

Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

When at first thought we think of a creator our ideas appear to us undefined and confused; but if we reason philosophically, those ideas can be easily arranged and simplified. It is a Being, whose power is equal to his will.

Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

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