The greatest of us has to learn.

He who would teach should be a learner all his life.
In everything he says and writes I find this desire to exalt Truth above the fervours of emotionalism and the dangerous drill of the formalist.
Always he is calling upon men to drop their prejudices and catchwords, to forsake their conceits and sentiments, to face Truth with a quiet pulse and eyes clear of all passion.

Christianity is a tremendous thing; let no man, believer or unbeliever, attempt to make light of it.
It is not compassion for the intellectual difficulties of the average man which has made Dr.Inge a conservative modernist, if so I may call him.

Sentiment of no kind whatever has entered into the matter.

He is a conservative modernist because his reason has convinced him of the truth of reasonable modernism, because he has "that intellectual honesty which dreads what Plato calls 'the lie in the soul' even more than the lie on the lips." He is a modernist because he is an intellectual ascetic.
When we compare his position with that of Dr.Gore we see at once the width of the gulf which separates the traditionalist from the philosopher.