Quotes related to 1 Corinthians 2:9
All concepts, including those of "unity" and of duality, are foreign to experience which can be described as non-conceptual.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Certain wondrous phenomena respond to the human need to know the infinite, truth, beauty, goodness. Others, deliberately enigmatic, remain inaccessible to our brains and hearts. Humans are much too accustomed to penetrating the universe with a narrow and limited mind, ignoring the eighty-thousand doors that are always open, at our disposal.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
God is personal, but personal in an incomprehensible way, in so far as the conception of his personality surpasses all our views of personality.
— Karl Barth
We must be clear that whatever we say of God in such human concepts can never be more than an indication of Him; no such concept can really conceive the nature of God. God is inconceivable.
— Karl Barth
Over and over the question addressed to Jesus arises in the history of the church: 'Lord, will those who are saved be few?' Jesus' answer seems so non-committal, so evasive: 'Strive to enter by the narrow door' (Luke 13:23f.). But this evasiveness is only apparent. This is the answer to this question. As long as we see only in a mirror, in riddles, many questions will remain unanswered, But this question has been answered, once for all time.
— GC Berkouwer
Christianity doesn't make much sense without the reality of heaven.
— Gary Thomas
I started at a sound so strange, long-drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of free will dropped from my hand and I stood gazing...
— Herman Melville
The weaver-god, he weaves; and by that weaving is deafened, that he hears no mortal voice; and by that humming, we, too, who look on the loom are deafened; and only when we escape it shall we hear the thousand voices that speak through it. 76
— Herman Melville
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
— Emily Bronte
Christianity is wild. It's intimate. It's heartbreaking and soul-mending. It's the wings to rise above the everyday and hope of a honeymoon with the God who has loved you forever. The party has just begun, and the best is yet to come.
— Steven James
Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.
— Richard O'Brien
It is not unreasonable to look forward to a time when we shall see without eyes, hear without ears and talk without tongues.
— Napoleon Hill