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Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.William Temple
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
William Temple
In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was if He was in Galilee, men could not find Him in Jerusalem if He was in Jerusalem, men could not find Him in Galilee. His Ascension means that He is perfectly united with God we are with Him wherever we are present to God and that is everywhere and always. Because He is 'in Heaven' He is everywhere on earth because He is ascended, He is here now. Our devotion is not to hold us by the empty tomb it must lift up our hearts to heaven so that we too 'in heart and mind thither accent and with Him continually dwell' it must also send us forth into the world to do His will and these are not two things, but one.
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 at all.
William Temple
Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because the mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves.
William Temple
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