Joseph Priestley Quotes on God
Joseph Priestley was an English natural philosopher, theologian, and political theorist, and one of the founding figures of English Unitarianism. This page collects quotes attributed to Joseph Priestley on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Joseph Priestley:
“Reason and revelation, both gifts of God, cannot truly conflict.”
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“When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.”
Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion(1772–1774) | Vol. I : Part I : The Being and Attributes of God, § 1 : Of the existence of God, and those attributes which art deduced from his being considered as uncaused himself, and the cause of every thing els -
“From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.”
An History of the Corruptions of Christianity(1782) | General Conclusions, Part I : Containing Considerations addressed to Unbelievers and especially to Mr. Gibbon -
“Vol. I : Part I : The Being and Attributes of God, § 1 : Of the existence of God, and those attributes which art deduced from his being considered as uncaused himself, and the cause of every thing else (1772)”
Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion(1772–1774)