Quote

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.

William Ralph Inge

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Ralph Inge
First
Believed
Driven
Dear
Parents
Parent
Remarked
Age
Adam
Live
Transition
Firsts
Paradise

More quotes by William Ralph Inge

Image
The happy people are those who are producing something.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
William Ralph Inge
Image
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.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.
William Ralph Inge
Image
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge
Image
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.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.
William Ralph Inge
Image
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
William Ralph Inge
Image
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.
William Ralph Inge
Image
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
William Ralph Inge
Image
They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.
William Ralph Inge
Image
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.
William Ralph Inge
Image
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.
William Ralph Inge