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Which Quotes by William Ralph Inge
- A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
- Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
- If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we…
- Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel…
- In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much…
- Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some…
- Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they…
- Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
- I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
- Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to…
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