138 Quotes by William Ralph Inge

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

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.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.

If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.