Saint Augustine Quotes

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

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

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

A comprehended god is no god.

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.

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.

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.

God's inexplicable. God is beyond the everything. And yet we can't cease to blather about it.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.

God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

I definitely believe in God.

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God

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.

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

God is bigger than people think.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.