H. L. Mencken Quotes

Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.

Christianity is the hallmark of civilization.

The doctrines of Christian theology are a rhapsody of feigned and ill-invented nonsense

Christianity is the truth about everything. If you say you have a Christian worldview, that means you see the world through that lens - not just how people get saved and what to stay away from.

We were raised as Christians, and religion plays an important role for us.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

I believe there's a heaven you know. Afterwards, there's, you know, a place called hell. And I believe it's when we have a relationship with God and his son Jesus and that's what the Bible teaches us. I believe it.

It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

I'm strongly into the Bible; I'm strongly into God and religion.I'm pro-life and different things.

This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.

You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.

I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. . . . that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God. . . . that God did send His own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners, and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the Gospel offer.

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal.

I believe in the Bible, and I believe in Jesus. It's a big part of my life.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault.

Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.