It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
Interpretation
This quote reflects the struggle of trusting in a higher power while facing personal disillusionment.
H. L. Mencken's quote underscores the profound emotional challenge for inherently trusting individuals when they confront the idea that divine assistance may not be forthcoming. The quote suggests that this realization can be a painful and lengthy process, challenging one's beliefs and perceptions about faith and support in times of need.
In practice
During a speech on personal growth, someone might use this quote to highlight the challenges of maintaining faith amidst adversity.
I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.
Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.
The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.
Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs
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