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God Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and…
- God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind…
- God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.
- All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush…
- It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
- It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
- A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved…
- People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but…
- Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God.
- The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries…
- As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those…
- All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it…
- Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished…
- Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- 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…
- The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as…
- The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
- If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God.
- The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling…
- If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and…
- God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi