lipservice

Updated: June 28, 2025

And even while he had lived in lipservice to that complaisant compromise, this true God had been here, this God he now certainly professed, waiting for his allegiance, waiting to take up the kingship of this distraught and bloodstained earth. The finding of God is but the stripping of bandages from the eyes. Seek and ye shall find.... He whispered four words very softly: "The Kingdom of God!"

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Soul of a Bishop