God Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

25 God quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll approaches God with a skeptical, yet thoughtful eye, challenging conventions while probing deeper meaning. This collection highlights his sharp wit and the intellectual rigor that defines his commentary.

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Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.

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In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

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We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.

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If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

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An honest God is the noblest work of man.

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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

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

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The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit,…

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And we are called upon to worship such a God; to get upon our knees and tell him that he is good,…

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If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody…

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If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we…

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It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us…

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It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god

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God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

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If Christ, in fact, said "I came not to bring peace but a sword," it is the only prophecy in the New…

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It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A…

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They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation…

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A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest…

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This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God,…

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Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force,…

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An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they…

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A God who gave his entire time for 40 years to the work of converting three millions of people, and succeeded in…

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We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers,…

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If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your…

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Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

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When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

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In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

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Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one…

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