Dean Inge

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. ↗

— Dean Inge

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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. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it. ↗

— Dean Inge

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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

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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

#constructed #does #follow #learn #men

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

#favor #make #only #opinion #pass

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. ↗

— Dean Inge

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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. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction. ↗

— Dean Inge

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