Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

The mere acknowledgment that 'God is watching' can act as a trap, fueling bad behavior, corruption, and guilt, all remedied by God's forgiveness. No personal responsibility is needed - someone on the outside sees whatever we're doing and makes it all OK.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I hope in the mercy of God.

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.

When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

Preach in your own house and to your own company

These people did their duty; they acted on my orders, so they are not guilty of anything. I accept their guilt myself. Try me.

We will base our actions upon the sublime truths which the Holy Religion of our Savior teaches. Both in the administration of our respective States, and in our political relations with every other government, we take for our sole guide the precepts of Holy Religion, namely, the precepts of Justice, Christian Charity and Peace, which, far from being applicable only to private concerns, must have an immediate influence on the councils of Princes, and guide all their steps.

People have the wrong idea that God will forgive Reagan. They say he didn't know what he was doing. It's true he didn't know a lot of what was going on, but he was directly responsible.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

If you're able to pay your bills, you pay your bills. It's as simple as that.

A gentleman pays his debt within a week or two.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.