William Edward Hartpole Lecky Quotes

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.

Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

I don't believe in an interventionist God

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

God is a luxury I can't afford.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws.

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

We don't get to decide who God is.

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.