Quotes About Incomprehensibility

We do not see God as he is in himself. We behold him in his works. We name him according to the manner in which he has revealed himself in his works. To see God face to face is for us impossible, at least here on earth. If, nevertheless, God wills that we should know him, he must needs descend to the level of the creature. He must needs accommodate himself to our limited, finite, human consciousness.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

He] was an insect wandering in the cathedral his mind had become.

Here is someone not set up for life's working out poorly, let alone for the impossible. But who is set up for the impossible that is going to happen? Who is set up for tragedy and the incomprehensibility of suffering? Nobody. The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy--that is every man's tragedy.

To a man talking about God is like using a spoon to get water from the Nile.

We must overturn any theologian that appeals to God's incomprehensibility in order to negate God's knowability.

How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

And suddenly I was in the car with my father. I heard rain splashing up over the tires and my father, humming. He was so alive, so beloved, that the incomprehensibility of his suicide grieved me all over again. By then, my father had been dead for two decades, and such a pure memory of him had never come back to me.

Any detail can be magnified to reveal even more detail ad infinitum. The technical term is "infinite complexity." Fractals are the theological equivalent of what theologians call the incomprehensibility of God. Just when we think we have God figured out, we discover a new dimension of His kaleidoscopic personality.

Do kraja života upoznava?u ljude, a nikad ih upoznati ne?u, uvijek ?e me zbunjivati neobjasnjivoš?u postupka.

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is the individual.

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individual.

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual.

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individuals.

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