Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

Don't bother to ask Allah to forgive the disbelievers. He will never forgive them.

Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much of the barbarity with which man has treated man; and the deep division imagined by the Church between the human being, with his immortal soul, and the soulless "beasts", has been responsible for an incalculable sum of cruelty.

Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.

And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.

From the Word of God I gather that damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvation is all of grace, from first to last. He that perishes chooses to perish; but he that is saved is saved because God has chosen to save him.

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

Be stern with disbelievers. They are going to Hell anyway.

If any man err from the right way, it is his own misfortune, no injury to thee; nor therefore art thou to punish him in the things of this life because thou supposest he will be miserable in that which is to come.