In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted. William Ralph Inge More Quotes by William Ralph Inge More Quotes From William Ralph Inge Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent. William Ralph Inge independent men promise Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. William Ralph Inge policy honesty supposing-that 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. William Ralph Inge giving-up real fall We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. William Ralph Inge cynical horse shapes 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 kind of effective energy. William Ralph Inge normal energy prayer 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. William Ralph Inge doe beautiful ideas The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours. William Ralph Inge leisure color soul The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got. William Ralph Inge littles average men Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place. William Ralph Inge intellect affection self We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune. William Ralph Inge god play thinking The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. William Ralph Inge bored happiness people 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 ourselves. William Ralph Inge venture elements risk Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. William Ralph Inge sarcasm sarcastic wise To marry is to get a binocular view of life. William Ralph Inge views The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. William Ralph Inge relative-value wise men All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience. William Ralph Inge free-love holy love-is Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. William Ralph Inge disillusioned sentimental prove When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition." William Ralph Inge paradise parent age They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great. William Ralph Inge perspective trouble live-for-others The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace. William Ralph Inge suicide war interesting
