Quotes About Incomprehensible

A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

Our intellects, no matter how sharp, can no more grasp this than they can comprehend God.

God can never be a definition. He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary.

Job once asked, "Can anyone teach God knowledge?" (Job 21:22). The obvious answer is no; no one can teach

Let nothing be great, nothing high, nothing pleasing, nothing acceptable unto thee, save God Himself or the things of God. Reckon as altogether vain whatsoever consolation comes to thee from a creature. The soul that loveth God looketh not to anything that is beneath God. God alone is eternal and incomprehensible, filling all things, the solace of the soul, and the true joy of the heart.

but the beauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise.

The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb—for we have no word to speak about it.

I had the most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact had an order, oblique as it may seem, and I a place within it.

Everything that is can't be understood. Everything that's understood can't be explained.

The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today. Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams.

The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today. Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We found strange affinities.

Lo espiritual y lo físico se habían fundido en nosotros con perfección tal que no puede sino resultar incomprensible para los jovenzuelos materialistas, rudos y de mentes uniformes, típicos de nuestro tiempo.

The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today.

Unübersetzbar. Du weißt, Niederländisch ist eine Geheimsprache, die dazu bestimmt ist andere auszuschließen.

It's just so strange," she explained. "I can't even grasp what it must mean.

Physical laws provided a trivial explanation for their shrinking. On second thought the connection between shrinking and loss of meaning was not so obvious. Why should it be that as things become small they also become incomprehensible?

Sometimes I have thoughts that even I don't understand. Thoughts that aren't even true—that aren't really how I feel—but they're running through my head anyways.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.

and it will always happen, that the nicest construction that words are capable of, when applied to the description of some thing which either cannot exist, or is too incomprehensible to be within the compass of discription, will be words of sound ony, and though they may amuse the ear, they cannot inform the mind

Yet who can presume to say what the war wants, so vast and aloof it is… so absentee.