William Temple

Books by William Temple

Nature, man and God

being the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Glasgow in the academical years 1932-1933 and 1933-1934
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The 13 crimes of science fiction
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Christianity and social order
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The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.
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Religion is what you do with your solitude.
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Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.
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Religion is what you do with your solitude.
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Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.
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The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.
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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.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.
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The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
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As the flower turns to the sun, or the dog to his master, so the soul turns to God.
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I am greater than the stars for I know that they are up there and they do not know that I am down here.
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The greatest pleasure of life is love.
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Contentment with the divine will is the best remedy we can apply to misfortune.
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It is a mistake to assume that God is interested only, or even chiefly, in religion.
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We must not forget that our vocation is to practice virtue that men are won to it; it is possible to be morally upright repulsively.
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