56 Quotes by Robert Ingersoll

The inspired Bible has been and is the greatest curse of Christendom, and will so remain as long as it is held to be inspired

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.

Calvin was as near like the God of the Old Testament as his health permitted

Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from which it was copied

But if the witnesses are inspired of God then there is no reason for their disagreeing on anything, and if they do disagree it is a demonstration that they were not inspired

The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray

The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray

The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory