Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.

If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as well as all kinds of happiness of man, whether they concern one individual or a community, are distributed according to justice; they are the result of strict judgement that admits no wrong whatever.

In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.

To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.

Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.'

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities in a life after death.

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

Do ye suppose that mercy can rob justice? I say unto you, Nay; not one whit. If so, God would cease to be God

If God should punish men according to what they deserve, he would not leave on the back of the earth so much as a beast.