GOD - Inscrutability | 上帝 - 奧秘 |
Man can find God but never fathom him. 人能尋找上帝,但卻無法徹底瞭解上帝。 |
No Christian is truly
spiritual who does not revel as much in his ignorance of God as in his knowledge of him. 若基督徒顯示出來對上帝的無知不若對上帝的認知,那這基督徒可非確實屬靈的基督徒。 |
The utmost that we know of God is nothing in respect
of that which he is. Thomas Aquinas 竭盡所能認識上帝方知自己對祂一無所悉。 |
God is more truly imagined
than expressed, and he exists more truly than he is imagined. Augustine 思想中的上帝比彰顯的上帝還真實,而祂的存在更遠比我們對上帝的思想來得真實。 |
There is infinitely more in God than the tongues of
men or angels can express. Thomas Brooks 上帝的無限遠非世人、天使萬口能及。 |
God knows the way that you
take; you don't know his. Elisabeth Elliot 上帝知曉你選程途;你卻未知祂的行蹤。 |
We must believe God great without quantity,
everlasting without time, and containing all things without extent; and when our thoughts
are come to their highest, let us stop, wonder and adore. Joseph Hall 我們深信上帝無可衡量的偉大、遠超時間的永恆、毫無遺漏的統管萬方;當我們思想上帝到極致,且讓我們知道卻步,驚嘆、尊崇上帝的偉大奧秘。 |
Whenever God is at work
there is the inexplicable. Ralph P. Martin 在上帝動工之處,無論何時,均有奧秘不可知之處。 |
We must never imagine that the existence of love and
wrath in the same nature is evidence of a split personality, but only evidence that God is
greater than can be grasped in our finite logic. J. A. Mortyer 我們切勿以為同一本質顯示出愛與憤怒是分裂人格的證據,而是上帝偉大遠超過我們有限邏輯所能瞭解的證據。 |
We must not judge the Lord
by any rules we would apply to men, or even to angels. William S. Plumer 我們切勿以對世人甚或天使的度量來管窺上帝。 |
A comprehended God is no God at all. Gerhard Tersteengen 我們有限智慧所理解的那位上帝可不等於就是上帝。 |