The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
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We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you.JOHN Templeton
Suppose you went to your priest and asked for help - he would refer you to the Bible, but if you went the next day to your medical doctor, and he referred you to the book of Hippocrates, which was written at about the same time as the Bible, you would think that was old-fashioned.
JOHN Templeton
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
Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.
John Templeton
If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
John Templeton
It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
John Templeton
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