Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

God is simply love.

I have a deep faith in God.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.

Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a hypothetical 'Other'.

Try to live as if there were a God

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth

Truth is the right designation of God.

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

One and God make a majority.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.