Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes about Prayer

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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Prayer, Noble, Answers

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4036, Library of Alexandria

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Prayer, Eye, Men

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1312, Library of Alexandria

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Prayer, Labor Day, Answers

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4036, Library of Alexandria

Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Prayer, Reading, Winter

Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.34

The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Christian, Prayer, Savages

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.320, Library of Alexandria

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

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Prayer, Spring, Thinking

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.827, Library of Alexandria

To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Prayer, Pain, Passion

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2155, Library of Alexandria