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William Ralph Inge

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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.
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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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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.
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Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
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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.
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A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.
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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.
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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.
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Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
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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.
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The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
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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.
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The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
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All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
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The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
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Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.
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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
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