Quotes About Incomprehensibility

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

There is no one label that could be attached to me that would be thought adequate.

God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of Himself. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it. But

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? {Said in a letter to Voltaire }

Is our conception of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

There is this error of thinking that things always have a reason that is accessible to us—that we can comprehend easily.

Much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.

even if x remains vastly beyond our understanding.

It made me feel odd looking at that eye, like there was a world of curiosities I didn't know about: crocodiles with huge eyes and snakes with no heads and thunderbolts God threw down that turned to stone. Sometimes I got that hollowed-out feeling too when looking at a sky full of stars or into the deep water the few times I went out in a boat, and I didn't like it: it was as if the world were too strange for me ever to understand it.

Only the incomprehensibilities of a Triune God could explain the impossibilities of human philosophy.

Some things were beyond understanding.

Non-being is "not to be spoken of," for it is, in the strictest sense, nowhere.

To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

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While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work, I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

I don't know exactly what's wrong with you, but I bet it's hard to pronounce when you're drunk."

There's a lot that doesn't make sense

As Lichtenberg said of angels," he wrote in one of his last letters, "so I say of dust. If they, or it, ever could speak to us, why in God's name should we understand?

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.

The individual is a nut so impossible to crack that no theoretic tooth will be able to manage it. And so nothing will be able to justify your defeat, bumblers!

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.