Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your gifts.… — William Temple About yourself Copy Share Image
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are… — William Temple Air Copy Share Image
There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth since all… — William Temple Conferences Copy Share Image
Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ. — William Temple Atheist Copy Share Image
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. — William Temple Abstinence Copy Share Image
A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy. — William Temple Best friend Copy Share Image
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. — William Temple Communication Copy Share Image
We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist… — William Temple Atheism Copy Share Image
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of… — William Temple Cannot Copy Share Image
“It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly concerned with our being religious.” — William Temple Failure Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and… — William Temple Helping Copy Share Image
People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor. — William Temple Charity Copy Share Image
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. — William Temple Ages Copy Share Image
Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is… — William Temple Good nature Copy Share Image
“To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to… — William Temple Beauty Copy Share Image
“Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the… — William Temple Beauty Copy Share Image
Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine,… — William Temple Contemplation Copy Share Image
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't. — William Temple Luck Copy Share Image
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed… — William Temple Business Copy Share Image
I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what… — William Temple Creation Copy Share Image
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and… — William Temple Always Copy Share Image
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using… — William Temple Beauty Copy Share Image
