Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Courage, Real, Writing

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.95, Library of Alexandria

• A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question - not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Real, Inspiration

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2794, Library of Alexandria

• There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes to say. Let him publish it. If it is worth buying, people will read it. It is hardly fair to get them in a church in the name of duty and there inflict upon them a sermon that under no circumstances they would read...the idea of going fifty-two days in a year to hear anybody on the same subject is absurd.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Writing, Years, Names

• Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Writing, Waiting, Liberty

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.224, Library of Alexandria

• We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.435, Library of Alexandria

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