Jonathan Swift Quotes

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.

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.

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

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

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.

Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which often He does not, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man. What this means in practical terms is that many of our questions - especially those that begin with the word 'why' - will have to remain unanswered for the time being.

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

I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what's going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it's going to end, how can any human know what God wants?

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.

A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.

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

Sometimes God's ways are not our ways. He may do something that seems unclear or even contradictory. We have to trust Him even when we don't understand Him.

Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.

My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every man and woman will be put in possession of the Holy Ghost. . . . They will know things that are, that will be, and that have been. They will understand things in heaven, things on the earth, and things under the earth, things of time, and things of eternity, according to their several callings and capacities.