English - Clergyman | June 6, 1860 - February 26, 1954
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.
William 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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Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
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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.
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