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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.

  William Ralph Inge

  Trust No One, Hiking, Challenges

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• Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

  William Ralph Inge

  Sentimental, Disillusioned, Prove

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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.

  William Ralph Inge

  Expectations, Choices, Certain

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Labels & Libels”

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• The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

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  Education, Class, Half

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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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.

  William Ralph Inge

  Two, Religion, Population

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• The Devil deserves zero tolerance.

  William Ralph Inge

  Zero, Tolerance, Devil

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• The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.

  William Ralph Inge

  Color, Soul, Doubt

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• Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

  William Ralph Inge

  Average, Tyrants, Public Opinion

  Outspoken Essays Our Present Discontents (p. 9)

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• 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

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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.

  William Ralph Inge

  Giving Up, Real, Fall

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• Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

  William Ralph Inge

  Reflection, Theatre, Theater

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• No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Christian, Optimism, Grace

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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.

  William Ralph Inge

  God, Thinking, Play

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• In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

  William Ralph Inge

  Philosophy, Men, Doe

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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.

  William Ralph Inge

  Connections, Phases, Consciousness

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• No word in our language - not even "Socialism" - has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut.

  William Ralph Inge

  Greek, Mouths, Esoteric

  "Christian Mysticism: The Bampton Lectures". Book by William Ralph Inge, Lecture I, www.gutenberg.org. 1899.

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• In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

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  Revenge, Independence, Revolution

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• 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

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• Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

  William Ralph Inge

  Superstitions, Belief, Worship

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• There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

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  Struggle, Fighting, Hands

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• Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

  William Ralph Inge

  Parent, Special, Pedestal

  William Ralph Inge (2015). “The Victorian Age”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.

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  Philosophy, Mean, Thinking

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• I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

  William Ralph Inge

  God, Should, Humour

  "Outspoken Essays" (Second Series) by William Ralph Inge, ("Confessio Fidei"), 1922.

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• Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

  William Ralph Inge

  Art, Writing, Half

  Victorian Age (Rede Lecture delivered at Cambridge, 1922) p. 49

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• In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

  William Ralph Inge

  Logical, Adopted, Englishmen

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