Calamity Quote by H. G. Wells Download Open image “What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?” — H. G. Wells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calamity Collapse Ifs Religion
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time. — Eustace Haydon Copy Share Image
Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it’s working for my good, And it’s building my testimony... — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
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