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.

— William Temple

William Temple Quotes

People that trust wholly to other’s charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.

— William Temple

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

— William Temple

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

— William Temple

It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it.

— William Temple

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

— 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
About Believing

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

— William Temple

The greatest pleasure in life is love.

— 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

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

— 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.

— William Temple

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

— William Temple

Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose – all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.

— William Temple

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

— William Temple

Little things are little things; but faithfulness in little things is a very great thing.

— William Temple

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child’s home.

— William Temple

Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.

— William Temple

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.

— 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!

— William Temple

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.

— William Temple
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