Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

I think we try to box and put God in some limited definition, which is impossible.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

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

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.

Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some 'substance' by Spinoza. The personal aspect (Sakara) of that Being is termed 'Ishvara' or Allah, Hari, Jehova, Father in Heaven, Buddha, Siva, etc. Just as vapour or steam is formless, so also God is formless in His unmanifested or transcendental state.

But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.

To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.