H. G. Wells Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens.

  H. G. Wells

  Cities, Wind, Tree

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.843, Delphi Classics

• Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.

  H. G. Wells

  Ignorance, Catholic, Church

  H. G. Wells (2000). “Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church”, p.155, Book Tree

• Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

  H. G. Wells

  Church, Sailor, Hell

• Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

  H. G. Wells

  Beach, Heart, Men

• [A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.

  H. G. Wells

  Eggs, Light, Church

  'Boon' (1915) ch. 4

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