William Temple Quotes
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
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.
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
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.
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
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.
True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.
Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.
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.
People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.
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.
But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.
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.
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
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.
The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.
Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.