Church Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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