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Earth's crammed with Heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes — The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
— John Ortberg
But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.' We are not to think that the Son of God as he is God did not know the day or hour but only that his human nature did not know it because his divine nature had not chosen to reveal it to his human nature.
— John Owen
What we cannot comprehend in things divine and infinite, as unto their own nature, that we are not to believe in their revelation.
— John Owen
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
— GK Chesterton
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
— Gloria Steinem
The absence of Jesus is the mode of his presence.
— James Carroll
There are many things that I don't understand.
— Billy Graham
I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.
— Joyce Meyer
1 Corinthians 2:7 (CEB)We talk about God's Wisdom, which has been hidden as a secret. God determined this wisdom in advance, before time began for our glory.
— Anonymous
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.
— Margaret Atwood
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
— Ellen Glasgow
For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
— Tertullian