In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
Robert Green Ingersoll

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Green Ingersoll

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Robert Green Ingersoll

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

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

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert Green Ingersoll