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They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
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Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
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I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!
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Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.
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Death is only perfect rest.
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Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded and just to the extent that science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of science.
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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
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Music expresses feeling and thought, without language it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
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Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.
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Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
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If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
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Heresy is a cradle orthodoxy a coffin.
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The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
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Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
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