Ineffable Quotes

83 quotes by 75 authors

Justice requires lawyers who are prepared, witnesses who tell the truth, judges who know the law, and jurors who stay awake. Justice is the North… — Paul Levine
The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the… — Laird Barron
As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at… — Henry David Thoreau
There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity… — Alan Watts
Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at… — Thomas Jefferson
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite, divine and ineffable… — Pope Dionysius
Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though… — Saint Augustine
Our Lord humbled without humiliation His lofty station which yet could not be humbled, and condescends to His servants, with a condescension ineffable and incomprehensible.… — John of Damascus
The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even… — Gregory Palamas
All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time,… — Victor Hugo
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges… — Sri Aurobindo
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth… — Kenny Smith
Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down… — Saint Augustine
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered. — Thomas de Quincey
Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to… — Frederick Lenz
Go ahead. Weep for the rare, the never seen this way again, the excruciating, ineffable, unmitigated beauty of love. — Mary Anne Radmacher
In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our… — Ben Marcus
O man, do you believe that Christ is God? If you believe, fear, and keep His commandments? there is no other God but He (cf.… — Symeon the New Theologian
The shepherds - simple souls - came to adore the Infant Savior. Mary rejoiced at seeing their homage and willing offerings they made to her… — Peter Julian Eymard

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