Anthony de Mello Quotes

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

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

Just supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being of such a kind as that He may with any propriety be called "God", it does seem antecedently very improbable that weak and limited creatures of a day, such as we are, should discover Him by our own efforts.... who could be discovered in that way would hardly be worth discovering. I think we ought to stick to that principle rather firmly. I think we ought to be rather sure that we cannot know God unless God has been pleased to reveal Himself to us.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

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.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

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

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

The word for knowledge appears in the Koran more often than any other except God.

I found that there were things that God could reveal to me that I could never get myself physically.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen...God alone can take us there, but the chariot in which He takes us up and the fiery steeds that pull the chariot, are prevailing prayers.

When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.

A man without vision is a man without God.

The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation of himself in nature has been obscured. The atheists' problem is not that they cannot know God, rather it is they do not want to know him. Man's problem with the existence of God is not an intellectual problem; it is a moral problem." For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men - Rom. 1:18"

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

You know what the difference between a cardiac surgeon and God is? God doesn't think he's a cardiac surgeon.

That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so veryfew, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light.

The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.

God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.

The Lord is going to keep His people informed if they will listen.