Infinite Wisdom Quotes

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

Your thoughts of God are too human

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

No creature, not even the most exalted angel, can understand God or have perfect knowledge of Him.

For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.

...Nothing puzzles God

So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

The Christian must know that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him according to his need.

As human beings, we anthropomorphize way too much. God's not a person. God, for me, is a power that lies outside the definition of time and space.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and close our minds. Like it or nor, our human experience of anything or anybody is always incomplete: there is usually something that eludes us, some portion of experience that evades our grasp.

I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something - or Someone - beyond itself.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.