Thomas Jefferson Quotes On God

Thomas Jefferson was known for his thoughts and opinions on religion and God. Here are the top 99 quotes from Thomas Jefferson on God:

“I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.”
“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”
“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.”
“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
“God has created the mind free and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain.”
“I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.”
“God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there will never be any liberal science in the world.”
“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of… Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all.”
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”
“I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.”
“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter.”
“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.”
“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.”
“The Christian God is a being of terrific character – cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust.”
“I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know.”
“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”
“I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.”
“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.”
“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.”
“There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
“I am a Materialist; he takes his position on duality; but we both believe alike in many phenomena of the invisible world, such as mesmerism, etc.”
“I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.”
“I am a sect by myself, as far as I know.”
“I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.”
“I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.”
“I am a sect by myself, as far as I know.”
“Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds.”
“But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.”
“Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.”
“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.”
“Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences. If it ends in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise and in the love of others it will procure for you.”
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
“Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.”
“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”
“God has formed us moral agents, that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own.”
“He who knows best knows how little he knows.”
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
“I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.”
“I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions.”
“I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple.”
“I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.”
“I am for the government of the United States being founded on the principles of the Declaration of Independence.”
“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.”
“I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.”
“I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.”
“I cannot live without books.”
“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”
“I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.”
“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”
“I have no patience with those who believe that, if you could only legislate enough, you could make the world perfect.”
“I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word only one way.”
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.”
“I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.”
“I think a change in our political principles is necessary. We have followed Europe in all her errors and extravagances, and we must now return to first principles.”
“I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”
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