William Ralph Inge Quotes

The Whole Of Creation, With All Of Its Laws, Is A Revelation Of God.

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.

Even The Paradise Of Fools Is Not An Unpleasant Abode While It Is Inhabitable.

The Strongest Wish Of A Vast Number Of Earnest Men And Women To-day Is For A Basis Of Religious Belief Which Shall Rest, Not Upon Tradition Or External Authority Or Historical Evidence, But Upon The Ascertainable Facts Of Human Experience. The Craving For Immediacy, Which We Have Seen To Be Characteristic Of All Mysticism, Now Takes The Form Of A Desire To Establish The Validity Of The God-consciousness As A Normal Part Of The Healthy Inner Life.

All Faith Consists Essentially In The Recognition Of A World Of Spiritual Values Behind, Yet Not Apart From, The World Of Natural Phenomena.

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.

We Tolerate Shapes In Human Beings That Would Horrify Us If We Saw Them In A Horse.

I Have No Fear That The Candle Lighted In Palestine Years Ago Will Ever Be Put Out.

The Fruit Of The Tree Of Knowledge Always Drives Man From Some Paradise Or Other; And Even The Paradise Of Fools Is Not An Unpleasant Abode While It Is Habitable.

The Effect Of Boredom On A Large Scale In History Is Underestimated. It Is A Main Cause Of Revolutions, And Would Soon Bring To An End All The Static Utopias And The Farmyard Civilization Of The Fabians.

Many People Believe That They Are Attracted By God, Or By Nature, When They Are Only Repelled By Man.

Beneath The Dingy Uniformity Of International Fashions In Dress, Man Remains What He Has Always Been; A Splendid Fighting Animal, A Self-sacrificing Hero, And A Blood Thirsty Savage.