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Religion is caught, not taught.

William Ralph Inge

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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.
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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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In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.
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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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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.
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The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
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The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
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The happy people are those who are producing something.
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Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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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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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
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I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
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God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.
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