A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

— William Ralph Inge

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

— William Ralph Inge

Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have their place.

— William Ralph Inge

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor.

— William Ralph Inge

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

— William Ralph Inge

It 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 Inge

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

— William Ralph Inge

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

— William Ralph Inge

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

— William Ralph Inge

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

— William Ralph Inge