Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green "Bob" Ingersollwas an American lawyer, a Civil War veteran, political leader, and orator of the United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 August 1833
CountryUnited States of America
agency call civilized free glory god great mind moral occupied question saved
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.
education god love spite
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.
discharge fellow god men
If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.
god real ignorance
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.
god thinking want
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
religious atheist if-there-is-a-god
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
god jesus believe
They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
god men honest
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
god destiny farce
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.
children men if-there-is-a-god
If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.
god religious hypocrite
A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.
if-there-is-a-god slave should
If there is a God, there should be no slaves.
god religious men
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.
forgiveness god forgive-me
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.