It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

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William Ralph Inge was a 19th-century English author, anglican dean and professor of divinity. William Ralph Inge was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and dean of St Paul's Cathedral. Although as an author he used W. R. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • God — Spiritual reflections on the divine, faith, and creation

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