Ralph Cudworth Quotes

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

None but God is wise.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.

All that has ever happened or ever will happen is in the Torah.

Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

God does arithmetic.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.