Inkling Quotes

“The author observes of the Inklings, "they make a perfect compass rose of faith: talking the Catholic, Lewis the "mere Christian," Williams the Anglican, Barfield the esotericist.”

“The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.”

“God knows I tried my best to learn the ways of this world, even had inklings we could be glorious; but after all that's happened, the inkles ain't easy anymore. I mean - what kind of fucken life is this?”

“We all know what we have to do what the inkling provokes us. We have to do the right thing. We have to make that extra push out of bed, or off the sofa. We must just do it.”

“The American's conversation is much like his courtship ... He gives an inkling and watches for a reaction if the weather looks fair he inkles a little more. Wishing neither to intrude nor be intruded upon he advances by stages of acceptance by levels of agreement by steps of concurrence.”

“Battling through poverty was not my forte, and I didn't have the inkling of eluding them.”

“Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.”

“Gut feelings are often the first inkling you receive that something is not quite right in any situation.”

“I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.”