Quotes about Unthinkable
Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that's unthinkable.
- Paul Graham
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse - though free verse is no guarantee against banality.
- Joseph Brodsky
God does not only oppose the enemy of the divine from an external or superior standpoint, but also does the unthinkable: he exposes himself to Satan's fascination, in order to burst the dazzling bubble from within.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
The whole business was so completely unthinkable that my mind, like almost all the other minds that were in the same situation, simply stopped trying to cope with it, and refixed its focus on the ordinary routine of life.
- Thomas Merton
It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
- Carl Sagan
What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Both Christ cosmically and Jesus personally make the unbelievable believable and the unthinkable desirable. Jesus Christ is a Sacrament of the Presence of God for the whole universe!
- Fr. Richard Rohr