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

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

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Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

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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.

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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.

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If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

~Dean Inge

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: June 6th, 1860

Died: February 26th, 1954

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