Quote

It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.

William Ralph Inge

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Ralph Inge
Believe
Men
Distributed
Fellow
Fellows
Becoming
Grace
Impossible

More quotes by William Ralph Inge

Image
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge
Image
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
William Ralph Inge
Image
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
Image
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.
William Ralph Inge
Image
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
William Ralph Inge
Image
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.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
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
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
William Ralph Inge
Image
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.
William Ralph Inge
Image
In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.
William Ralph Inge
Image
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
William Ralph Inge