H. L. Mencken Quotes

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith.

You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!

Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

The silence killed your faith.

It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

We haven't done such a great job, so I don't know why God couldn't have started over somewhere else. I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.

You know, for a long time I became almost atheist. I believed in nothing. And it was tough for me to believe in anything at all because I had believed so strongly. And I divorced myself of spirituality, I think.

I don't believe in God anymore.

I did everything religion told me to do for a long time only to end up frustrated, beat down and jaded. I couldn't keep up. No matter how hard I tried, it was never enough. So I decided to quit. And I did.

You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.

A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything- tangible or intangible- again. To never trust or wonder.

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.

I’ll never speak to God again.