Paul III Quotes

God doesn't know things. He is things.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Believe in something larger than yourself.

God has neither form nor color. He is incorporeal and immense. Whatever is seen in the world describes his greatness.

As human beings, we anthropomorphize way too much. God's not a person. God, for me, is a power that lies outside the definition of time and space.

God is much greater than anything we can imagine.

"God" is just a name to refer to something that is beyond all limitations.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.