What's God Got to Do with it? Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk & the Separation of Church & State Quotes

“They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.”
― Tim Page, What's God Got to Do With It?: Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State

“The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn — the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.”
― Tim Page, What's God Got to Do With It?: Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State

“Our God was made by men, sculptured by savages who did the best they could. They made our God somewhat like themselves, and gave to him their passions, their ideas of right and wrong.”
― Tim Page, What's God Got to Do With It?: Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State

“Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; you can never commit any crime that will shut my door, my arms, or my heart to you. As long as I live you shall have one sincere friend.”
― Tim Page, What's God Got to Do With It?: Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State

“The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle — the entire structure.”
― Tim Page, What's God Got to Do With It?: Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State

“I believe in the gospel of Good Living. You cannot make any god happy by fasting. Let us have good food, and let us have it well cooked — and it is a thousand times better to know how to cook than it is to understand any theology in the world.”
― Tim Page, What's God Got to Do With It?: Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State