Beyond Human Perception Quotes

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

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

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.

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

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

What is real is beyond all reach.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.