The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
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