23 Quotes by Joseph McCabe

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms.

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts – a ‘bundle of facts.’ Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the ‘law’ because they act in that way.

The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth – Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.