William Temple Quotes

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The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.

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In place of the conception of the power-state we are led to that of the welfare-state.

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Christianity teaches us to moderate our passions; to temper our affections toward all things below; to be thankful for the possession, and patient under loss, whenever He who gave shall see fit to take away.

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I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.

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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

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Personally, I have always looked on cricket as organized loafing.

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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or other, like too scanty a blanket when you are a-bed

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It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.

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People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.

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Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.

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Christianity is the most materialistic of all great religions.

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No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could astonish the world more than [England's] declaration of war against Holland in 1672.

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Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

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We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

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When all is done, human life is, at the greatest, and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

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To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

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There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth, since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man.

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Intellectually, stops matter a great deal. If you are getting your commas, semi-colons, and full-stops wrong, it means that you are not getting your thoughts right, and your mind is muddled.

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Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process.

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