William Ralph Inge
William Ralph Inge
William Ralph Inge KCVOwas an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, Dean Inge...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth6 June 1860
William Ralph Inge quotes about
horse cynical saws
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
expectations choices certain
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.
prayer normal energy
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.
death grieving profound
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
color soul leisure
The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
happiness bored people
The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.
philosophy men doe
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.
character judging personality
A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.
education class half
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
trust-no-one challenges bereavement
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
spiritual men grace
A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.
accountability get-up share
Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
philosophy religion superstitions
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
spring jealous men
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.