It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
– Dean Inge
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
– Dean Inge
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
– Dean Inge
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.
– Dean Inge
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
– Dean Inge
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
– Dean Inge
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.
– Dean Inge
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
– Dean Inge
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.