--- title: "5 Sermons Quotes By Robert Green Ingersoll" description: "5 Sermons quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll. Plus more from Robert Green Ingersoll and more Sermons sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc4/robert-green-ingersoll-361_absurd_there-is-no-necessity-for-going-to-the-c_113587.png" --- > [There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/there-is-no-necessity-for-going-to-the-church-and-hearing-the-same/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc4/robert-green-ingersoll-361_absurd_there-is-no-necessity-for-going-to-the-c_113587.png) > [For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/for-the-first-time-i-understood-the-dogma-of-eternal-pain-for-the/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/robert-green-ingersoll-361_christian_for-the-first-time-i-understood-the-dogm_210862.png) > [Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/man-must-learn-to-rely-upon-himself-reading-bibles-will-not-protect/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11b/robert-green-ingersoll-361_bible_man-must-learn-to-rely-upon-himself-read_820815.jpg) > [I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/i-would-rather-smoke-one-cigar-than-hear-two-sermons/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5da/robert-green-ingersoll-361_cigar_i-would-rather-smoke-one-cigar-than-hear_1603223.png) > [There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/there-is-more-real-devotional-feeling-summoned-from-the-temple-of-the/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb6/robert-green-ingersoll-361_art_there-is-more-real-devotional-feeling-su_2510556.png) ## Other authors on Sermons - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-max-lucado-65870.jpg) Max Lucado 19 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sermons/max-lucado/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-spurgeon-22605.jpg) Charles Spurgeon 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sermons/charles-spurgeon/) - [Shannon L. 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Moody 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sermons/dwight-l-moody/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-vance-havner-93139.jpg) Vance Havner 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sermons/vance-havner/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sermons/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sermons/mahatma-gandhi/) ## More by Robert Green Ingersoll > [Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/our-hope-of-immortality-does-not-come-from-any-religions-but-nearly/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/if-with-all-the-time-at-my-disposal-with-all-the-wealth-of-the/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 you will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/honest-investigation-is-utterly-impossible-within-the-pale-of-any/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/i-read-the-other-day-an-account-of-a-meeting-between-john-knox-and/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/shakespeare-has-done-far-more-for-the-world-than-the-bible/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/every-man-who-expresses-an-honest-thought-is-a-soldier-in-the-army-of/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/liberty-is-the-condition-of-progress-without-liberty-there-remains/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/it-has-been-said-that-a-man-of-genius-should-select-his-ancestors/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/when-passions-and-appetites-are-stronger-than-the-intellect-men-are/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/in-spite-of-my-surroundings-of-my-education-i-had-no-love-for-god/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/the-combined-wisdom-and-genius-of-all-mankind-cannot-possibly/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/calvin-founded-a-little-theocracy-modeled-after-the-old-testament-and/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/i-do-not-believe-in-loving-enemies-i-have-pretty-hard-work-to-love-my/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/what-is-it-that-distinguishes-you-and-me-from-the-lower-animals-from/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/the-literature-of-many-lands-is-rich-with-the-tributes-that-gratitude/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sermons/robert-green-ingersoll/#itemlist", "name": "5 Sermons Quotes By Robert Green Ingersoll", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes to say. Let him publish it. If it is worth buying, people will read it. 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