138 Quotes by William Ralph Inge

The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon tradition or external authority or historical evidence, but upon the ascertainable facts of human experience. The craving for immediacy, which we have seen to be characteristic of all mysticism, now takes the form of a desire to establish the validity of the God-consciousness as a normal part of the healthy inner life.

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

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.

The Devil deserves zero tolerance.

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.