H. L. Mencken Quotes

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.

I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.

You just have to have a simple faith.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded

It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages.

I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.

Faith is a passionate intuition.