Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

It proceeds from a consummate ignorance in politicks, to think that a number of men agreeing together can make and hold a commonwealth, before nature has prepared the way…

Kings and rulers stand in the place of God on earth, and it is through them, as secondary causes, that God exercises governance over the world.

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

We live in a world of creative beauty - the grand architect of the universe. God has planted something for us - a playground to play in if we choose to look at it that way and understand it. So, this time for me, is really a time to create.

...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.'

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.

All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.

He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God Pantokrator". For “god" is a relative word and has reference to servants, and godhood is the lordship of God, not over his own body "as is supposed by those for whom God is the world soul', but over servants.

The Law and the Lawgiver are one.

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!

The will of the people shall be the law of the land