Thomas Jefferson Quotes – Famous Quotes

Thomas Jefferson

“Well aware…that Almighty God hath created the mind free…all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments…tend only to begat habits of hypocrisy and meaness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone.”

Thomas Jefferson – Article of Religious Freedom

Love Quotes

 
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.
 - Binney
 
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
 - La Rochefoucauld
 
 
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
 - Stendhal

Quotes – Famous Quotes – Eric Hoffer Quotes

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
- Eric Hoffer

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything in to an empty head.
- Eric Hoffer

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
- Eric Hoffer

To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
- Eric Hoffer

People unfit for freedom – who cannot do much with it – are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a “have” type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a “have not” type of self.
- Eric Hoffer

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.
- Eric Hoffer

Take man’s most fantastic invention – God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
- Eric Hoffer

Famous Quotes- A Good Sermon

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
– George Burns