We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
William Ralph IngeThe strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon tradition or external authority or historical evidence, but upon the ascertainable facts of human experience. The craving for immediacy, which we have seen to be characteristic of all mysticism, now takes the form of a desire to establish the validity of the God-consciousness as a normal part of the healthy inner life.
William Ralph IngeIt is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.
William Ralph IngeBereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
William Ralph Inge