Quotes by Optimistic If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more. John Templeton opportunities-to-learnoptimisticopportunity It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. John Templeton optimisticselfthinking Work at being a humble person. John Templeton humble-personoptimistichumble Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension. John Templeton divinityoptimisticworship 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. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity? John Templeton optimisticconceitedbeautiful Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail. John Templeton use-it-or-lose-itoptimisticmind ...Making people get over the concept that they've got the total proof. To get them to feel, 'Gee, I want to learn more. I want to hear anybody who can tell me something in addition to ways I already know about God or my spiritual principles. John Templeton optimisticspiritualpeople Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did. John Templeton doctorsoptimisticchildren High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life. John Templeton optimisticprinciplesreligious The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded?' John Templeton optimisticyaleboys A flower is a miracle, but it does not have the sight or speech to describe us. And our own ability is no greater than that flower when we try to describe God. His infinity covers not only one planet, but the entire solar system and 100 billion suns. That doesn't mean he is limited in his ability to be part of you. John Templeton optimisticflowermean I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits? John Templeton optimisticbenefitslife 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 optimisticbookthinking 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 optimisticchurchteaching The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit. John Templeton bitsoptimisticlittles 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 optimistictwoscience 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 optimisticselfthinking We hope that there will be nothing that conflicts with anybody's religion or faith. We would never say a person's religion is not effective. We say, 'Would you be interested in something more effective?' We always put things in an optimistic, progressive perspective. 'Do you want to make your prayers more effective? Not that they are not effective, but do you want to help them become more effective?' John Templeton optimisticperspectiveprayer I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts. John Templeton optimisticbecomingbelieve 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 doctorsoptimisticarmy«1819202122232425262728»
