Emil Cioran Quotes

To me, it's the folly of man to make God human.

To know God's name is to know God.

What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's self to us over time, and with each succeeding generation, we come a little closer to understanding the mind of God.

God is best known in not knowing him.

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.

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

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

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.

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.

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

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

Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.

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

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

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.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious?

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

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.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.

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.