William Temple famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Health #Exercise #Men
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
-- William Temple

#Next #Ingredients #Firsts
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.
-- William Temple

#Inspirational #Men #Littles
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
-- William Temple

#Glasses #Enemy #Firsts
The greatest medicine is a true friend.
-- William Temple

#Friendship #True Friend #Medicine
The greatest pleasure in life is love.
-- William Temple

#Engagement #Life Is #Pleasure
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

#Father #Inspiration #Heaven
We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.
-- William Temple

#Atheist #Love Is #Names
Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
-- William Temple

#Learning #Want
People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.
-- William Temple

#People #Charity #Poor
A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.
-- William Temple

#Best Friend #Friendship #Men
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 .
-- William Temple

#Men #Organization #Society

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