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

— William Temple

#destroy #discourage #health #ill #keep

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully. ↗

— Charles Templeton

#does #fit #live #makes #problems

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea. ↗

— John Templeton

#god #idea #individual #like #sea

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. ↗

— John Templeton

#back #centuries #century #convinced #descendants

He’d mesmerized her, held her soul captive. And she couldn’t move. “Unless you want more than a dream,” he said. She did. “Will you stay?” he whispered. “Or will you go?” She stayed. Heaven help her, she stayed. And Michael showed her just how romantic a library could be. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#dreams

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more. ↗

— John Templeton

#learn #more #opportunity #welcome #will

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then. ↗

— John Templeton

#back #confederate #doctor #grandfather #minister

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts. ↗

— John Templeton

#becoming #believe #clinging #concepts #i

I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress. ↗

— John Templeton

#enthusiasm #i #progress #radical #would

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. ↗

— John Templeton

#describe #divinity #human #human beings #limited