Quotes about Compréhensible
For what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!
- Herman Melville
What are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!
- Herman Melville
the Christianity of Christendom, takes this into account; it takes away from Christianity the offense, the paradox, etc., and instead of that introduces, probability, the plainly comprehensible. That is, it transforms Christianity into something entirely different from what it is in the New Testament, yea, into exactly the opposite; and this is the Christianity of Christendom, of us men.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and glory, but why do people half my age think that they don't have faith unless their faith is small and comprehensible and like a good old plastic Jesus?
- Madeleine L'Engle
But an acceptable Christianity is not Christian; a comprehensible God is no more than an idol. I don't want that kind of God.
- Madeleine L'Engle