William Ralph Inge Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

  William Ralph Inge

  Education, Knowledge, Facts

  Education (1917) ch. 2

• True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

  William Ralph Inge

  Believe, Reality, Belief

• The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

  William Ralph Inge

  Wise, Men, Relative Value

  William Ralph Inge (1927). “The church in the world: collected essays”, Ayer Co Pub

• The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

  William Ralph Inge

  Spring, Jealous, Men

• All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

  William Ralph Inge

  Spiritual, World, Recognition

  William Ralph Inge (1910). “Faith and Its Psychology”

• 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.

  William Ralph Inge

  Giving Up, Real, Fall

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