Guru Nanak 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.

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

No creature, not even the most exalted angel, can understand God or have perfect knowledge of Him.

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

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.

The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.

Your thoughts of God are too human

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

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 best known in not knowing him.

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

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.

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.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised up; below; but not depressed; wholly above, presiding; wholly without, embracing; wholly within, filling.

We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.