20 February 2016

inconceivable


When we try to imagine what God is like, we must of necessity use that which is not God as the raw material for our minds to work on; hence whatever we visualize God to be, He is not, for we have constructed our image out of that which He has made and what He has made is not God. ~AW Tozer

"The intellect knoweth that it is ignorant of Thee, " said Nicholas of Cusa, "because it knoweth Thou canst not be known, unless the unknowable could be known, and the invisible beheld, and the inaccessible attained. If anyone should set forth any concept by which Thou canst be conceived, I know that that concept is not a concept of Thee, for every concept is ended in the wall of Paradise...So too, if any were to tell of the understanding of Thee, wishing to supply a means whereby Thou mightest be understood, this man is yet far from Thee...forasmuch as Thou art absolute above all the concepts which any man can frame,"  ~Nicholas of Cusa

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