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...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite,…
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The name 'cherubim' means 'fullness of knowledge' or 'outpouring of wisdom'... The name cherubim signifies the power to know and to see…
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Those who do not know must be taught, not punished. We do not hit the blind. We lead them by the hand.
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Our Lord Jesus Christ made the merciful shepherding of His sheep the proof of love for Himself (cf. Jn. 21:15-17). He denounces…
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All angels bring revelations and tidings of their superiors. The first bring word of God who is their inspiration, while the others,…
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The word of God has provided nine explanatory designations of the heavenly beings... the first group is forever around God and is…
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The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake…
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'Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights' (Jms. 1:17). But there is…
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We make assertions and denials of what is next to [the Divine Nature], but never of It, for It is both beyond…
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The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we…
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I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see,…
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What has actually to be said about the Cause of everything is this. Since it is the Cause of all beings, we…
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Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent…
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Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep…
— Mark Twain
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Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon,…
— Johannes Kepler
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Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can…
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The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that…
— Judith Butler
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