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Religion is caught, not taught.

William Ralph Inge

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No word in our language - not even Socialism - has been employed more loosely than Mysticism. The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut.
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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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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.
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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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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
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Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
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We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
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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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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.
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For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.
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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
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The happy people are those who are producing something.
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Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
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