Leo Strauss Quotes

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

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

The problem with God is that we want him to reveal Himself, and He doesn't. We will never understand God.

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

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

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

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

What is the origin of God?

I am, therefore there is a 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.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

No God without a world, and no world without God.

'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk.

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

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.