Quotes by William Temple
William Temple (1881–1944) — Erzbischof · Anglikanisch · England
William Temple (1881–1944) war ein englischer Theologe und Erzbischof von Canterbury in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er verband eine inkarnatorische Theologie mit christlichem Sozialismus, setzte sich für die Entstehung des britischen Sozialstaats sowie die Ökumene ein und stieß mit seiner Einmischung in wirtschaftspolitische Debatten auf konservative Kritik. Bibellesern ist er bis heute vor allem durch seine Auslegungen des Johannesevangeliums und seine Schriften zur gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung der Kirche bekannt.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Humility & Pride, Prayer & Silence, Grace & Redemption, Guilt & Forgiveness, Church & Congregation, Wisdom & Understanding, Meaning & Identity, Service & Love of Neighbour
Quotes by William Temple
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 one way or the other at all.
William Temple
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don’t, they don’t.
William Temple
All comes from God. The only thing I contribute to my redemption is my sin, from which I need to be redeemed.
William Temple
The only thing of our very own which we contribute to our salvation is the sin which makes it necessary.
William Temple
The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members.
William Temple
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
My worth is what I am worth to God; and that is a marvelous great deal, for Christ died for me. Thus, incidentally, what gives to each of us His highest worth gives the same worth to everyone; in all that matters most are we equal.
William Temple
I make myself, in a host of ways, the center of the universe.
William Temple
The source of humility is the habit of realizing the presence of God.
William Temple
A theologian is a man who spends his time answering questions nobody asks.
William Temple
Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
William Temple
To evangelize is so to present Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit, that men shall come to put their trust in God through Him, to accept Him as their Savior, and serve Him as their King in the fellowship of His church.
William Temple
One who faces his own failures is steadily advancing on the pilgrim's way.
William Temple
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.
William Temple
Contentment with the divine will is the best remedy we can apply to misfortunes.
William Temple
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
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
William Temple
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
Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.
William Temple
To choose a career on selfish grounds is probably the greatest single sin that any young person can commit, for it is the deliberate withdrawal from allegiance to God of the greatest part of time and strength.
William Temple
It is probable that in most of us the spiritual life is impoverished and stunted because we give so little place to gratitude. It is more important to thank God for blessings received than to pray for them beforehand. For that forward-looking prayer, though right as an expression of dependence upon God, is still self-centered in part, at least, of its interest; there is something we hope to gain by our prayer. But the backward-looking act of thanksgiving is quite free from this. In itself it is quite selfless. Thus it is akin to love. All our love to God is in response to his love for us; it never starts on our side. "We love, because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19).
William Temple
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