Joseph Mccabe Quotes

#1. The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth - Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.

Joseph McCabe

#2. Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms.

Joseph McCabe

#3. The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.

Joseph McCabe

#4. If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

Joseph McCabe

#5. It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.

Pope Leo XIII

#7. An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

Joseph McCabe

#8. The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

Joseph McCabe

#9. The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

Joseph McCabe

#10. No pope ever condemned slavery.

Joseph McCabe

#11. Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

Joseph McCabe

#12. The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record.

Joseph McCabe

#13. The absence of theistic belief...

{Defining the word 'atheism'}

Joseph McCabe

#14. Idolatry is not holding on to the wrong things; it is holding on to the good things wrongly, including God," Herbert McCabe, O.P., quoted in Christian Century, August 21, 2013, 21. Any

Rev. Joseph A. Heim

#15. Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the 12th century, and in the Mohammedan world after the 15th century.

Joseph McCabe

#16. In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies ...

Joseph McCabe

#17. A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.

Joseph McCabe

#18. The feeling that one must be an authority in a subject to say anything about it is unfounded. We are all laymen outside the field of our own specialty,

Morris Kline

#19. Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways.

John Piper

#20. Forgiveness is a process of accepting the past and welcoming the mysterious beauty of the future.

Debasish Mridha

#21. I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

Joseph McCabe

#22. The absence of theistic belief.

Joseph McCabe

#23. Man's place is to be the first without being the last ... [I]t's man's place to be the teacher of all the rest who are capable of becoming what he's become.

Daniel Quinn