William Temple - God Quotes

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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.

William Temple

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

William Temple

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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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.

William Temple