Quotes from 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
True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.
- William Temple
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
- William Temple
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
- William Temple
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
- William Temple
If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
- William Temple
When I pray coincidences happen and when I don't they don't.
- William Temple
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
- William Temple
Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.
- William Temple
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
- 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
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