Kenneth L. Pike Quotes

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

God is best known in not knowing him.

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

What are the chances there is a God, really?

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

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

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 moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

I have the feeling that behind a certain dimension we cannot anymore see, understand, feel, smell, hear - nothing. What people are calling God I am not defining, but I am a 'possibilitiest.'

Your thoughts of God are too human

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

A comprehended god is no god.

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

When I'm asked to define God, I'm almost wordless.

The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.

Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious?

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.