Quotes from William Temple
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
True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.
— William Temple
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.
— William Temple
The greatest medicine is a true friend.
— William Temple
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
— William Temple
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
— William Temple
That great artillery of God Almighty.
— William Temple
Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.
— William Temple
The church exists for the sake of those outside it.
— William Temple
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
— William Temple
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
— William Temple
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
— William Temple