Favourite Quotations & Bon Mots

[Angrboda]

"The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that the human language, whether in speech or in print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God. The Word of God exists in something else."
— Thomas Paine, Age of Reason


"My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them."
— Abraham Lincoln

"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."
— Voltaire