Ancient Quote by John Templeton Download Open image “I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.” — John Templeton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Becoming Believe Clinging Concepts I believe Obsolete Optimistic Religion
“Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of… — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
There is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century. — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations. — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
I think the sense of exclusivity that tended to be associated with religions in past times has now disappeared. At least it has disappeared… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I do not believe in religions in the modern sense. It is an excrescence and a handicap on progress. — KM II Copy Share Image
An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and prayer. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people -… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
...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… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
I have no quarrel with what I learned in the Presbyterian church - I am still an enthusiastic Christian. But why shouldn't I try… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Suppose you went to your priest and asked for help; he would refer you to the Bible. But if you went the next day… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Many media commercials encourage us to believe that if we buy a certain product, we can be physically appealing, or popular, or successful. According… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never ask if the market is going to go up or down because I don't know, and besides it doesn't matter. I search… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Many of us understand giving, but some of us may still be confused about the meaning of forgiveness. Some people may go through life… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Not yet have I found any better method to prosper during the future financial chaos, which is likely to last many years, than to… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
