Quotes about Incomprehensibility

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.

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

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.

Ascension joy—inwardly we must become very quiet to hear the soft sound of this phrase at all. Joy lives in its quietness and incomprehensibility. This joy is in fact incomprehensible, for the comprehensible never makes for joy.

God has revealed himself to us in his Son, Scripture, creation, and other ways, but so much of who he is remains incomprehensible.

A comprehended god is no god.

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

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.