Top 15 William Ralph Inge Quotes

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

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.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors.

what is originality ? undetected plagiarism!

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

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.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Events in the past maybe roughly divided into those which and probably never happened and those which do not matter.

"There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better.

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.

"The Divine nature is Rest," he says in one of the German discourses; and in the Latin fragments we find: "God rests in Himself, and makes all things rest in Him."

Mysticism may be defined as the attempt to realise the presence of the living God in the soul and in nature, or, more generally, as the attempt to realise, in thought and feeling, the immanence of the temporal in the eternal, and of the eternal in the temporal.