Atheism Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Christian Endeavor Female Hard Positive atheism
It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her. — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
As an extension of Christ in the lives of his children is the only trend enough for a woman's precious energies. — Elaine A. Cannon Copy Share Image
We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Women have more to offer the church than mad decorating skills or craft nights.” — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
Building followership and inspiration around female leadership is quite difficult to do. — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“Yes, there are passages in Scripture—especially in Paul’s epistles—about women’s roles. But it is biblically untenable and soul crushing to tell a woman that… — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I can't imagine Christ being weak and carrying on about his burdens to women, let alone an Oprah type of woman. We respect and… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image