William Temple Quotes

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

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Reacting to evangelists' fondness for quoting Isaiah 118, 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow....' All my sins are grey.

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The problem of evil... Why does God permit it Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it

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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

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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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No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

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Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.

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You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

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I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

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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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A man's wisdom is his best friend folly, his worst enemy.

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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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Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

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The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

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So that a paradise, among them seems to have been a large space of ground adorned and beautified with all sorts of trees, both of fruits and of forest, either found there before it was enclosed, or planted after either cultivated like gardens, for shades and for walks, with fountains or streams, and all sorts of plants usual in the climate, and pleasant to the eye, the smell, or the taste or else employed like our parks, for enclosure and harbor of all sorts of wild beasts, as well, as for the pleasure of riding and walking and so they were of more or less extent, and of different entertainment, according to the several humors of the Princes that ordered and enclosed them.

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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. The Malvern Manifesto Drawn up by a Conference of the Province of York, January 10, 1941 signed for the Conference by Temple, then Archbishop of York (later Archbishop of Canterbury).

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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

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

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Truth will be uppermost one time or another, like cork, though kept down in the water.

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Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

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

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Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

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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.

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The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

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