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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.William Ralph Inge
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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
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The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.William Ralph Inge
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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.William Ralph Inge
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Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have their place.William Ralph Inge
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Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.William Ralph Inge
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The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.William Ralph Inge
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I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor.William Ralph Inge
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.William Ralph Inge
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The happy people are those who are producing something.William Ralph Inge
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.William Ralph Inge
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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
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The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.William Ralph Inge
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.William Ralph Inge
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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.William Ralph Inge
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.William Ralph Inge