H. L. Mencken Quotes

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Quotes to Explore
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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
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Judges who find Constitutional rights the Framers never intended take important issues out of the public space of democratic debate and suspend them in a sort of legal formaldehyde.
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Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?
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Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
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The analogy between Shannon and codes in biology isn't something that sprang from my belief in God... except maybe on some deeper or more transcendent level.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.