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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
- William Inge
#Challenge
#Faith
#God
#Overcome
#Trust
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.
- William Inge
#Be True
#Choice
#Faith
#True
#Will
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
- William Inge
#How
#Little
#Mankind
#Own
#Wisdom
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
- William Inge
#Death
#Grief
#Love
#Stronger
#World
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
- William Inge
#Common Sense
#Degree
#Wisdom
#Wise
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
- William Inge
#Candle
#Fear
#No Fear
#Palestine
#Will
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
- William Inge
#Before
#Course
#Hope
#Life
#Maybe
#Reflection
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
- William Inge
#Delusion
#Hatred
#Nation
#Patriotism
#Society
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
- William Inge
#Beautiful
#He
#Imagination
#Nobody
#True
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
- William Inge
#Belief
#Faith
#Reality
#True
#Values
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
- William Inge
#About
#Born
#Character
#Influence
#Time
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
- William Inge
#Originality
#Plagiarism
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
- William Inge
#Always
#Best
#Honesty
#Policy
#Us
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
- William Inge
#Consequences
#Only
#Punishments
#Rewards
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
- William Inge
#Argue
#Enemies
#Freedom
#Shoot
#Shout
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
- William Inge
#Being
#Cause
#Happiness
#Happy
#People
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
- William Inge
#Barbarians
#Civilized
#Disease
#Gambling
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
- William Inge
#Originality
#Plagiarism
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
- William Inge
#Favor
#Opinion
#Pass
#Sheep
#Useless
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
- William Inge
#Democracy
#Experiment
#Government
#Only
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
- William Inge
#Before
#Interest
#Paid
#Trouble
#Worry
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
- William Inge
#Art
#Best
#Communication
#Literature
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
- William Inge
#Age
#Find
#Next
#Spirit
#Will
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
- William Inge
#Aim
#Education
#Facts
#Knowledge
#Values
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 Inge
#Devil
#Environmental
#Religion
#Rest
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