If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

If all the oceans were ink and all the trees were pens, they couldn't write the knowledge that God has.

It is of course only through imagery, through metaphor and symbol, that we can imagine the new world that God intends to make. That is right and proper. All our language about the future, as I have said, is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist. The signpost doesn't provide a photograph of what we will find when we arrive but offers instead a true indication of the direction we should be traveling in. What

Because humans are capable of knowing, the first cause that produced them must have a mind. Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause must have a will. And so on. Philosopher Étienne Gilson captures the argument neatly: because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must be also a Someone.

Wherever your story takes you, you'll never arrive there first, because your Lord is already there in sovereign presence and power, and he rules that place in infinite wisdom and holiness.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

I have found that the prompts to adjusting my understanding of God are all around me—literally. The very heavens are shouting them, and the word they are shouting most clearly is "mystery.

But God understands its way, and He knows its place.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.