Dean Inge quotes:

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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.

  • 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.

  • I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

  • Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

  • The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

  • It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

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

  • Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

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

  • Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

  • It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

  • A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

  • The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

  • The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

  • The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

  • Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

  • 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.

  • Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

  • Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

  • To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

  • 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.

  • One of the first things one notices in a backward country is that children are still obeying their parents

  • 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.

  • What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

  • Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

  • Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized

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