Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Noble, Answers

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4036, Library of Alexandria

• Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

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  Prayer, Labor Day, Answers

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4036, Library of Alexandria

• Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Reading, Winter

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.34

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

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  Prayer, Children, Intelligent

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.976, Library of Alexandria

• Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Fall, Law

• To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.

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  Prayer, Pain, Passion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2155, Library of Alexandria

• It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

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  Prayer, Spring, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.827, Library of Alexandria

• All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Air, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll ...”

• A good deed is the best prayer.

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  Prayer, Deeds, Good Deeds

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4651, Library of Alexandria

• The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

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  Prayer, Eye, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1312, Library of Alexandria

• The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Prayer, Savages

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.320, Library of Alexandria

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