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There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words my country may evoke.

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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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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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
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The happy people are those who are producing something.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
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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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Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
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Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
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Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
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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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The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.
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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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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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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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The Devil deserves zero tolerance.
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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
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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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