More from H. G. Wells
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells If we don’t end war, war will end us.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells
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From our community writers
When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
Sania AbbasSania Abbas
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More on church
The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The only thing God is building in this world is his church.
Bakht SinghBakht Singh a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
Barbara MertzBarbara Mertz If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
Timothy KellerTimothy Keller Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.
Barry W. LynnBarry W. Lynn When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
William CowperWilliam Cowper