8 Quotes By 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 on faith

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 on faith

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 on faith

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

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
Dean Inge on fear

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 on science

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 on trust

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