Church Quote by H. G. Wells Download Open image “Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.” — H. G. Wells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Hell
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The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but… — Saint Boniface Copy Share Image
“There is some pleasure in being on board a ship battered by storms when one is certain of not perishing. The persecutions buffeting the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess to be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you are not a member of the church you regularly attend, you may well be going to hell. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat Copy Share Image
A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell." — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image