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。