William Inge
William Inge

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

William Inge
William Inge

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.

William Inge
William Inge

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

William Inge
William Inge

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

William Inge
William Inge

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

William Inge
William Inge

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.

William Inge
William Inge

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

William Inge
William Inge

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.

William Inge
William Inge

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

William Inge
William Inge

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

William Inge
William Inge

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

William Inge
William Inge

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.

William Inge
William Inge

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

William Inge
William Inge

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.