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
church half speak
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
parent age paradise
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."
powerful men average
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.
greek mouths esoteric
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...
believe men grace
It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
suicide war interesting
The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
men average littles
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
silence break
Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.
beautiful ideas doe
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
spiritual joy true-life
Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.
giving-up real fall
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.
independent men promise
Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
civilization disease
Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
grief stronger world
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.