Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Prayer
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.
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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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A good deed is the best prayer.
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The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
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Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
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