"Inge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... INGE, "is the embodiment of spiritual emptiness." A determined attempt is to be made to find out what the Crystal ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 8, 1919 • Various
... energy would suggest a source of almost inexhaustible power. But that is perhaps the greatest disappointment of all in the Bishop's psychology. In the case of Dr. Inge one is very conscious of a rich and deep background, a background of mysticism, from which the intellect emerges with slow emphasis to play its part on the world's stage. In the case of Bishop Ryle one is conscious behind the pleasant, courtierlike, and scholarly ...
— Painted Windows - Studies in Religious Personality • Harold Begbie
... of children will serve to illustrate the superiority of spiritual power over sensuous, and usher in the dawn of God's creation, wherein they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels. To abolish marriage at this period, [15] and maintain morality and generation, would put inge- nuity to ludicrous shifts; yet this is possible in Science, although it ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy
... name was Inge; she was a poor child, but proud and presumptuous; there was a bad foundation in her, as the saying is. When she was quite a little child, it was her delight to catch flies, and tear off their wings, so as to convert them into creeping things. Grown older, she would take cockchafers and beetles, ...
— What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales • Hans Christian Andersen
... said that Chesterton is the finest essayist of the day. It would be perhaps fairer to say he is like no living essayist; if he is not a finer essayist than Dean Inge, he is at least as good; he may not be so academic, but he is as learned; if he has not quite the charm of Mr. Lucas he is at least more versatile. His essays sparkle with epigrams, they are full of paradox. He has said that Plato said silly things and yet was the wonder ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke |
