Dean Inge - Best Quotes

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.

Faith

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

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Faith

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

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.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Author: Dean Inge

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

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.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

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

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.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

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.