"If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn’t pay Smith." ― Robert Green Ingersoll Topic(s): God More From Robert Green Ingersoll "Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result." "Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell." "Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science." More In God "I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that’s happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop – stop dead – and I miss it."― Richard Pryor "The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore."― H. L. Mencken "God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk."― Leon Spinks