William Ralph Inge
William Ralph Inge
William Ralph Inge KCVOwas an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, Dean Inge...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth6 June 1860
William Ralph Inge quotes about
spiritual men grace
A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.
education class half
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
religious men numbers
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.
trust-no-one challenges bereavement
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
accountability get-up share
Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
god law creation
The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.
heaven fool paradise
Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.
silence break
Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.
civilization waste products
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
prayer normal energy
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.
beautiful ideas doe
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.
death grieving profound
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
giving-up real fall
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.
independent men promise
Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.