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
Marriage is a wonderful institution,
but who would want to live in an institution?
- H. L. Mencken
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
For every complex problem,
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- 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
The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- 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
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken
For centuries, theologians have been explaining
the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- 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
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- 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 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
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- H. L. Mencken
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- H. L. Mencken
Puritanism. The haunting fear that
someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- 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
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
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
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
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.
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
- Mark Twain
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today is the bridge between acceptance and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
- Joseph Campbell
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, service, and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anchoring in soft mud is dangerous.
Anchor thyself to the rocks of Faith, Compassion, and Service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
Can you imagine a life with no fear?
What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?
- Max Lucado
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Faith is trusting in the good.
Fear is putting your trust in the bad.
- Rhonda Byrne
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
It is not our place to know the mind of God.
Spirit knows what is best in the long run -
best for each of us individually,
and best for humanity as a whole.
This is often very difficult to accept
when we see war and disease in the world
and experience physical and emotional suffering
in ourselves, our family, and our friends.
I consider this belief in God's infinite power
and ultimate wisdom to be the true test of 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
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
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Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
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