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Top 25 William Temple Quotes (2024 Update)

William Temple Quote: “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.”

1. “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

William Temple Quote: “When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don’t, they don’t.”

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

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “The greatest medicine is a true friend.”

3. “The greatest medicine is a true friend.”

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “The greatest pleasure in life is love.”

4. “The greatest pleasure in life is love.”

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.”

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

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.”

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

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “Religion is what you do with your solitude.”

9. “Religion is what you do with your solitude.”

— William Temple

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

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

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child’s home.”

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

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “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.”

12. “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

William Temple Quote: “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.”

13. “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

William Temple Quote: “People that trust wholly to other’s charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.”

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

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.”

15. “Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.”

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “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.”

16. “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

William Temple Quote: “A man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.”

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

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “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.”

18. “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

William Temple Quote: “It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly concerned with our being religious.”

19. “It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly concerned with our being religious.”

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.”

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

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “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!”

21. “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

William Temple Quote: “Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.”

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

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “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.”

23. “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

William Temple Quote: “Little things are little things; but faithfulness in little things is a very great thing.”

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

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “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.”

25. “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

William Temple Quote: “Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.”

26. “Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.”

— William Temple

William Temple Quote: “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.”

27. “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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