The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share
They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share
We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share
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 Copy Share
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share
The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share
