William Ralph Inge Quotes
An English author, Anglican priest, and professor of divinity at Cambridge.
(1860 - 1954)
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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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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings, and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
[Patriotism]
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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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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
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Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.
[Anxiety]
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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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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
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Christianity is a spiritual dynamic which has very little to do with the mechanism of social life.
[Religion]
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Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
[Civilization]
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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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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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Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
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Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
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Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.
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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
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Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
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