Quotes from William Temple

I shall conclude with a saying of Alponsus, surnamed the Wise, King of Aragon - that among so many things as are by men possessed or pursued in the course of their lives, all the rest are baubles, besides old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read!

Pharisees—men who lived in the strength of a fellowship that had behind it the greatest religious tradition in all the world, but who, because they trusted more to their tradition than to the God who inspired it, were unable to recognise the still further call of God when it came to them.

No one who is not a Christian in spirit can perform the Christian act; and the Sermon on the Mount is not a code of rules to be mechanically followed; it is the description of the life which any man will spontaneously lead when once the Spirit of Christ has taken complete possession of his heart.

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

to lift a man by education from one social stratum to another is to expose him to a terrible temptation—the temptation to despise his own people.

Coinciden?ele sunt mai frecvente atunci când ne rug?m.

Liberty, in so far as it is of any value, always means self-control in both the senses of that term: in the sense that we are only controlled by ourselves, and also in the sense that by ourselves we are controlled, and that every part of our nature is subservient to the purpose to which our whole nature is given.

In our worship we find for the most part what we expect to find.

I am quite sure that the Communion is just the place where we need to be divided until our unity is real.

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

Your religion is what you do with your solitude.

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