John Templeton Quotes

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• An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.
• Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a different direction than…
• Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.
• Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by…
• Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?
• Let no day go by without counting your blessing.
• Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.
• The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the…
• I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people - teachers…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I have no quarrel with what I learned in the Presbyterian church - I am still an enthusiastic Christian. But why shouldn't I try to…
• 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…
• Work at being a humble person.
• 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…
• ...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…
• 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…
• The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we…
• 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…

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