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

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

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

William Temple quotes: 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.

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.

William Temple quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Religion is what you do with your solitude.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

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

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

William Temple quotes: The greatest pleasure in life is love.

The greatest pleasure in life is love.

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

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

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

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

William Temple quotes: People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.

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

William Temple quotes: Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

William Temple quotes: The greatest medicine is a true friend.

The greatest medicine is a true friend.

William Temple quotes: When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

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

William Temple quotes: Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

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

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

William Temple quotes: Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

William Temple quotes: Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

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

William Temple quotes: 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?

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?

William Temple quotes: The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.

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

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

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