Beyond Human Understanding Quotes

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

Your thoughts of God are too human

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.

We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

God cannot be compared to anything. Note this.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

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

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery travels, back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

I am living against all predictions. The doctors say I am a sort of witch.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

There are big questions science doesn't answer, such as why is there something rather than nothing? There can't be a scientific answer to that because it's the answer that precedes science.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

Please do not put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience.

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.