“Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?”

— John Marks Templeton

The Quotable Sir John
Context: 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?

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stock investor, businessman and philanthropist 1912–2008

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