William Ralph Inge Quotes
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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
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We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.
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In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
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A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
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Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
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No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
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The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
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If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
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But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.
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Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
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The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
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My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
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Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
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When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."
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Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
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The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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