"Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities."
― Thomas Paine
Topic(s):
Friendship
More From Thomas Paine
- "It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes."
- "War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes."
- "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
More In Friendship
- "Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life."― George Herbert
- "Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."― George Santayana
- "The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."― Joseph Addison