Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property… — 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 fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has… — 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 Image
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 Image
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
