Dean Inge Quotes

It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.

I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

God and the devil are inherent in each of us. It's our choice to make: you can take the road to good, you can take the road to bad. Well, we have a choice.

Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.

You can't serve God and money.

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.

To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.

I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.

Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

It is called working your ass off. The difference is what you are willing to sacrifice. For every writer who wants balance in their life, there is a guy like me who gives up a lot to make their dreams come true. There is always going to be someone out there that knows they have to compensate for maybe having less talent with harder work and preparation.

When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens.

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

You give up a lot to be in politics. And if you're not there to change the world I don't know what you're there for. I mean, it doesn't make any sense to me.

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.