Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to... by Dean Inge | We Heart Quotes

Writer theologian God Faith Spirituality

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

Other quotes by Dean Inge

Faith

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

Value Man

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

- Dean Inge

Faith Will

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

Action Will

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.

- Dean Inge

Life Love

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

- Dean Inge

Faith World

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

- Dean Inge

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