Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

If somebody postulates the existence of more than one god, I would have to say we don't worship the same god. If somebody says that God is basically one with the world, I would also have to say we don't worship the same god.

I wouldn't call myself a Christian because I do not believe that Jesus is God, nor do I believe that he ever thought that he was God, or that he ever said that he was God.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.

It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third.

this is her body this is her blood

God is Man's greatest invention

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.

Man made God in his own image.

Your thoughts of God are too human

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus.

We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.

Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints.

Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.