William Ralph Inge Quotes

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.

~ William Ralph Inge

The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.

~ William Ralph Inge

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

~ William Ralph Inge

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

~ William Ralph Inge

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

~ William Ralph Inge

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

~ William Ralph Inge

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

~ William Ralph Inge

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

~ William Ralph Inge

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

~ William Ralph Inge

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

~ William Ralph Inge

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

~ William Ralph Inge