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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief
in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken
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Marriage is a wonderful institution,
but who would want to live in an institution?
- H. L. Mencken
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- H. L. Mencken
Life is a constant oscillation
between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
- H. L. Mencken
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- H. L. Mencken
For centuries, theologians have been explaining
the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken
The objection to Puritans is not that
they try to make us think as they do,
but that they try to make us do as they think.
- H. L. Mencken
Puritanism. The haunting fear that
someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- H. L. Mencken
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- H. L. Mencken
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- H. L. Mencken
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken
For every complex problem,
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H.L. Mencken
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I have faith. I just need proof to back it up.
- the movie Simon Birch
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
- Mark Twain
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who knows history, particularly
the history of Europe, will, I think,
recognize that the domination
of education or of government
by any one particular religious faith
is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Today is the bridge between acceptance and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The present is the ever moving shadow
that divides yesterday from tomorrow.
In that lies hope.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Anchoring in soft mud is dangerous.
Anchor thyself to the rocks of Faith, Compassion, and Service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
- D. Elton Trueblood
The antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, service, and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When prayer removes distrust and doubt
and enters the field of mental certainty,
it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
- Ernest Holmes
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
- Adrian Rogers
Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I will gather myself around my faith,
for light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Faith can move mountains.
- Anonymous
Non-violence is the article of faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Faith is the highest passion in a human being.
Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Faith... must be enforced by reason...
when faith becomes blind it dies.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Faith is trusting in the good.
Fear is putting your trust in the bad.
- Rhonda Byrne
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
- Joseph Campbell
Can you imagine a life with no fear?
What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?
- Max Lucado
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
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