Spiritual Limitations Quotes

Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky

No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

A flower is a miracle, but it does not have the sight or speech to describe us. And our own ability is no greater than that flower when we try to describe God. His infinity covers not only one planet, but the entire solar system and 100 billion suns. That doesn't mean he is limited in his ability to be part of you.

I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn't much, and then call that God. And while it may seem like a noble effort, the truth is that it falls pitifully short of who I really am. I'm not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am far more than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

I've come to see that you can limit God is different ways. You can limit Him by thinking he can never work in spectacular ways. But you can also limit Him by thinking that only the spectacular is meaningful." - from "Dug Down Deep

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.

The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

I personally have a hard time with a lot of the creation stories that revolve around the creator being a white man. It seems very limiting to me. So God to me is... so limitless and magical and loving and beautiful.

Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

While there are many things you can do to help a loved one in need, there are some things that must be done by the Lord.

The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.

I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.