Robert G. Ingersoll quotes - page 15

Nature is good enough and grand enough and broad enough to give us the diversity born of liberty. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
It fills the world with melody - for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods. View quote
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No devil, no hell. No hell, no atonement. No atonement, no preaching, no gospel. View quote
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They were unbalanced, emotional, hysterical, bigoted, hateful, loving, and insane. View quote
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So they are easily imposed upon by forms, strange garments, and solemn ceremonies. View quote
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If you send men to the penitentiary for speaking their thoughts, for endeavoring to enlighten their fellows, then the penitentiary will become a place of honor, and the victim will step from it - not stained, not disgraced, but clad in robes of glory. View quote
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Were we allowed to read the Bible as we do all other books, we would admire its beauties, treasure its worthy thoughts, and account for all its absurd, grotesque and cruel things, by saying that its authors lived in rude, barbaric times. View quote
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If that statute had been enforced, that science would not now be the property of the human mind. That science is contrary to the Bible, and for asserting the truth you become a criminal. View quote
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There has never been upon the earth a generation of free men and women. It is not yet time to write a creed. View quote
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Everywhere pain, disease and death-death that does not wait for bent forms and gray hairs, but clutches babes and happy youths. Death that takes the mother from her helpless, dimpled child-death that fills the world with grief and tears. How can the orthodox Christian explain these things? View quote
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They abhor the courage of manly men. They hate the man who thinks. They long for revenge. They warm their hands at the imaginary fires of hell. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
The greatest men the world has produced have known but little. They had a few facts, mingled with mistakes without number. View quote
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Religions are for a day. They are the clouds. Humanity is the eternal blue. Religions are the waves of the sea. These waves depend upon the force and direction of the wind -- that is to say, of passion; but Humanity is the great sea. And so our religions change from day to day, and it is a blessed thing that they do. Why? Because we grow, and we are getting a little more civilized every day. View quote
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We are in a world where vice, deformity, weakness, and disease are hereditary. In the presence of this immense and solemn truth rises the religion of the body. View quote
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Who is a worshiper? What is prayer? What is real religion? Let me answer these questions. Good, honest, faithful work, is worship. View quote
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If you take the cruel passages, the verses that inculcate eternal hatred, verses that writhe and hiss like serpents, you can make a creed that would shock the heart of a hyena. View quote
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He had never heard of the lame, the halt, and the blind that had been cured; or if he had, he did not think these incidents of enough importance to be embalmed in an epistle. View quote
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Poor people feel out of place in such magnificent buildings. They drop into the nearest seat; like poor relations, they sit on the extreme edge of the chair. At the table of Christ they are below the salt. They are constantly humiliated. View quote
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This he has done in his sermon entitled "Ghosts against God or Ingersoll against Honesty.”. View quote
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How is it possible for men of ordinary intellect, not only to endorse such ignorant falsehoods, but to malign those who do not? View quote
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The church must not abandon its belief in devils. Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
He seemed to believe that his father in heaven would protect him. He thought that if God clothed the lilies of the field in beauty, if he provided for the sparrows, he would surely protect a perfectly just and loving man. In this he was mistaken; and in the darkness of death, overwhelmed, he cried out: "Why hast thou forsaken me?”. View quote
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We know now, if we know anything, that all the reasons for doing right, and all the reasons against doing wrong, are here in this world. View quote
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How can the Infinite be glorified? Does he wish for reputation?... Why should he wish the flattery of the average Presbyterian? What good will it do him to know that his course has been approved of by the Methodist Episcopal Church? What does he care, even, for the religious weeklies, or the presidents of religious colleges? View quote
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And yet, all this force was expended for the paltry purpose of defeating a few poor barbarians. The employment of so much force for the accomplishment of so insignificant an object would be as useless as bringing all the intellect of a great man to bear in answering the arguments of the clergymen of San Francisco. View quote
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