Worship Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

12 Worship quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Ingersoll’s sharp, secular perspective offers a provocative look at worship. This brief set of 12 quotes challenges conventional reverence with humor and critical thought, perfect for a reflective skeptic.

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This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and…

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Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

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Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

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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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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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The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are…

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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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He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For…

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Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has…

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All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the…

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“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades…

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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…

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Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will…

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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a…

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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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It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to…

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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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