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Religion is caught, not taught.

William Ralph Inge

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Joy is the triumph of life it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.
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The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.
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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.
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It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
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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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All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
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My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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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 average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
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Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
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The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel its poverty by how little.
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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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