Book Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll Download Open image “I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.” — Robert Green Ingersoll ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Clergy Found Learning
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times,… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church-but not studied. — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it. — William James Copy Share Image
“Not many years before the Happening, one of your country's largest religious bodies officially declared that their book was holier than their God, thus simultaneously and corporately breaking several commandments of their own religion, particularly the first one. Of course they liked the book better! It was full of magic and contradictions that they could quote to reinforce their bigoted… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share
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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
