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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Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
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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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Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.
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You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.
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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
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I’m just enjoying just having a little me time, you know? But it’s not that I’m not taking applications.
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We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
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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.
