Quotes About Deist

#1. The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.

William Cowper

#2. It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

Thomas Paine

#3. A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#4. Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist, rejected emphatically Spinoza's pantheism.

Shelby D. Hunt

#5. a deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.

Anonymous

#6. [T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned defense of Deism called the Diegesis , has clearly proved all the heirarchical institutions of the Christians to be a close copy of those of the Essenians of Egypt.

Godfrey Higgins

#7. Jefferson the deist was accused of being an atheist and even a Muslim.

Karen Armstrong

#8. I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

Richard Steele

#9. It is a duty incumbent on every true deist, that he vindicates the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the Bible.

Thomas Paine

#10. Some books against Deism fell into my hands ... it happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quote to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

Thomas Paine

#12. A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

Honore De Balzac

#13. The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the lean Levite went to sleep, And dreamed of tasting pork to-morrow.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#14. The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.

Thomas Paine

#15. Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Peter Kreeft

#16. We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?

Gian-Carlo Rota

#17. I wrote code that merely did what it was supposed to do. Simon's solutions were rapid and weird - convoluted, sometimes in a pointless way, often in a way that looked pointless until you saw how elegant it was.

Austin Grossman

#18. I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfalls in the night country.

Bryce Courtenay

#19. A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.

Gautama Buddha

#20. The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.

Hirohito

#21. A family is a place where a body can share the no-account things, can talk of the little matters important only to ourselves, where we can laugh and cry and tell of the day-by-day happenings and then forget them.

Louis L'Amour

#22. When I'm listening to stuff on the computer or through a horrible little speaker on my phone, and then I hear the real version with the bass and everything, I sometimes don't like it as much. I definitely believe that any medium is viable in that respect.

Kevin Shields