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
spiritual world recognition
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
giving-up men world
Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.
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.
running names world
If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
thinking world pulse
The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
two religion world
The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.
man sit
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
bored discover imagination nobody trying
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
philosophy mean thinking
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.
beautiful cousin animal
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
This is old, therefore it is good”; the other says, “This is new, therefore it is better.
originality plagiarism unconscious
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
parent special pedestal
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.
god thinking play
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.