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.

H. L. Mencken

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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.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
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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.

  

  Sam Kean
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• He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
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• The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
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• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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• We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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.'

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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• Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

  

  Walter Lang
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• Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  

  Daniel Bell
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• Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
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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.

  

  Adam Hamilton
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  • Believe
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• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
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• Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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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.

  

  J. Cole
  • World
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• God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

  

  Yolanda Adams
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  • Love
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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.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
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• There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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  • Being
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• The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.

  

  Philip K. Dick
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  • Space
  • Universe

• I like to say I believe in ghosts so I don't get haunted by one.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Believe

• Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)

  

  Randy Alcorn
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• Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Fame
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• When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Thinking
  • Writing
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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.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Universe
  • Imagination