It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixtee… - William Ralph Inge

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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.

William Ralph Inge

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William Ralph Inge (6 June 1860 – 26 February 1954), popularly referred to simply as Dean Inge, was an English author, Anglican prelate, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral.

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Alternative Names: Very Rev. William Ralph Inge • William Inge • Ralph Inge • W. R. Inge • Dean Inge

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