Kallistos Ware Quotes

The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.

I think it's a wonderful fact about Judaism - at least about the approach to Judaism I most relate to: There are no universal answers. We don't have it all figured out. God is unknowable.

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

Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.

There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is.

There is nothing God doesn't know about your life. You may know the past and present, but God also knows the future. Choose today to walk securely - not in what you know, but in what you believe.

The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ be unfolded in one age, and something in another, yet eternity itself cannot full unfold him.

The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.

God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

Does God understand you? Find the answer in Bethlehem.

Fredrick Buechner kind of loosened me up, hes got a little irreverency to him and I have a little too much reverancy.

Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

In the end, we know God as unknown.

I know a lot less about God, but the things I know about God, I know a whole lot more, for sure.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

The minister and the priest teach that the organization is greater. No great philosophy has ever come from an organization, but from an individual whose research has been a personal study of God and ITS ways.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.