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And now, we've come to the final cultural quote from Elder Harold B. Lee's second talk in this Conference, "The Iron Rod". Can you believe there used to be a time where people had to give two and three talks during Conference? Man, the stress of that!
The Quote
It was an English novelist who was quoted as saying: “He who seeks God has already found him.”
What English novelist???
Granted, this was not much to go on. And my search again came up empty.
What this turns out to be is an unsubstantiated quote - a quote that just circulates in the ether and no one knows for sure who said it.
Some sites attribute the line to Graham Greene , so we'll pretend it was him, and we'll talk about him today.
Not the Graham Greene the Native American actor who just passed away, though I liked him as well.
This Graham Greene, apparently, was a tremendously notable writer, and produced many novels and screenplays. His Catholic faith came through in many of his works, so it's very likely this was the person actually quoted, though we'll never know for sure unless I read all of his public and private works.
Not likely to happen.
ChatGPT could do it, but would it tell me the truth if it did?
I don't know.
So this one remains a mystery for now, although some of Graham Greene's work may very likely end up on my reading list in the near future.
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