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Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

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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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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There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words my country may evoke.
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The happy people are those who are producing something.
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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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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
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The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
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Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.
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A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.
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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
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To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
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Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.
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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 great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
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Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.
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Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
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