William Inge Quotes

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William Inge

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : June 6, 1860

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 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.

William Inge

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

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

William Inge

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

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

William Inge

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

William Inge

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

William Inge

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

William Inge

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

William Inge

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

William Inge

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