Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of reverence for divinity while acknowledging the limitations of human understanding.
John Templeton's quote suggests that while it is essential to honor and worship a higher power, one must also recognize that this divine essence transcends human comprehension. This reflection encourages humility in the face of the vastness of the divine, reminding us that our perceptions and interpretations are often limited and that true understanding may lie beyond our grasp.
In practice
During a spiritual gathering, one might refer to this quote to inspire deeper contemplation.
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 know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life.
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 know and how open minded we should be.
The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
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.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely.
In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us from the sorcerers - a war-lord who can save us from the barbarians - a Church that can save us from Hell. Give them what they ask, give ourselves to them bound and blindfold, if only they will! Perhaps the terrible bargain will be made again. We cannot blame men for making it. We can hardly wish them not to. Yet we can hardly bear that they should.
We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.
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