Patrick White Quotes

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

God is best known in not knowing him.

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

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient.

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

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.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.

A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.

I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

God gave us the mind so that we can know him.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is 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.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.