Beyond Human Comprehension Quotes

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

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.

Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.

If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph.

The Absolute can never be thought of.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation: that which is All, and which therefore is no limited or individual thing: The All is no-thing, for if it were to be a single thing separated from all other things, it would not be All.

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

I don't like to talk about it in those terms; it's impossible to describe who or what God "is." Suppose you were a horse, and you were asked to describe what a human being was like. You couldn't do it.

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.

Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often that’s what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems.

What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

When we try to imagine what God is like we must of necessity use that-which-is-not- God as the raw material for our minds to work on; hence whatever we visualize God to be, He is not, for we have constructed our image out of that which He has made and what He has made is not God. If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

The resurrection confronts our world with wonder, mystery, and miracles.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.