Quotes About Incomprehensible

the truth about the paradoxes of Bernard Shaw. Each of them is an argument impatiently shortened into an epigram. Each of them represents a truth hammered and hardened, with an almost disdainful violence until it is compressed into a small space, until it is made brief and almost incomprehensible.

But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable.

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

When I came to the West and heard about knights slaying dragons, I was shocked. In Tibet, the dragon symbolizes incomprehensible profundity.

There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.

There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence? It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality.

If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.

none of us can know the mind of God. He's too big for that.

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever." Deuteronomy 29:29. Just how God accomplished the work of creation he has never revealed to men; human science cannot search out the secrets of the Most High. His creative power is as incomprehensible as his existence.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Pero volvamos al aire y la luz de la primavera, que deberían ser los únicos protagonistas. Se trataba de una luz incomprensible. Siendo así que la adolescencia consiste en ese aire que no es posible explicarse. Podría escribirse en esa luz (ya que no es posible escribir sobre esa luz), conseguir que la suave carne de pomelo de esa luz quedase inscrita, en cierto modo «pensada». Aún está por ver si se puede, si yo puedo.

All the same I keep on looking for someone incomprehensible who won't understand me either, because I have a terrible thirst for brotherhood

I became part of the air that surrounded Sui, and breathed her incomprehensible sadness. I think that part of those feelings live within my soul. Burdened by bad karma, and a soul that beckoned such unfortunate fate, Sui used all the resources she had to make her way through love. I witnessed that.

He wrote the kind of books that nobody could be expected to read.

When we say that God is infinite, we do not mean that He is of immeasurable size and duration, but that He is beyond all space and time. He is neither in space nor in time; for this reason He is eternal and infinite, and therefore He is also incomprehensible.

Properly speaking, the name of God is not to be given to the Absolute before creation; the Absolute is the only philosophical name admissible, and that is unsatisfactory, for it is negative; but the idea of God before matter was must be incomprehensible by material beings.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

Well, it is very odd of you to threaten to throw your friends out of the window, I must say, remarked Juliana. He smiled. Not at all. It is only my friends that I would throw out of the window. Dear me! said Juliana, finding the male sex incomprehensible.

How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!

The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.