Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Image
