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
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
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. – Dean Inge
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
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Whos sorry for a gnat or girl? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world. – Arthur Helps, “Chapter IV,” Companions of My Solitude, 1851