138 Quotes by William Ralph Inge

The happy people are those who are producing something...

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

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.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

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 more to learn than to teach.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.