John Templeton Quotes

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

I have always believed in God.

The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.

I think there are more religious overtones in music because these artists want to be connected to greatness. What is greater or higher than God himself?

No creature, not even the most exalted angel, can understand God or have perfect knowledge of Him.

The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.

God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.

Look up on high, and thank the God of all.

We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Krishna is God, and by chanting His Holy Names, the devotee quickly develops God-consciousness.

Nothing's real ,but all is possible if God is on my side

A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.