Quotes about Incomprehensible

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

One name by itself can't fully represent God's majesty & power.

God is personal, but personal in an incomprehensible way, in so far as the conception of his personality surpasses all our views of personality.

For all these reasons, then, any way you may look at it, you must needs conclude that the great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last. True, one portrait may hit the mark much nearer than another, but none can hit it with any very considerable degree of exactness. So there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like.

This story doesn't make any damn sense

God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

How great You are, My God! You are beyond my understanding! The number of Your years is past finding out. You draw up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind. Who can understand how You spread out the clouds, how You thunder from Your pavilion? (Job 36:26—29)

The inability to comprehend fully the mysteries of God does not in any way curtail the Christian faith. On the contrary, it enhances our belief. We do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars in their courses, but we know that He who created them does, and that just as surely as He guides them, He is charting a safe course for us.

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

That is why God is a scandal to men and women—because He cannot be comprehended by a finite mind.

But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.