Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

God is best known in not knowing him.
[Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.]

God is best known in not knowing him.
[Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.]

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of read more

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God and God is
matter; and that it read more

I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God and God is
matter; and that it is no matter whether there is any God or no.

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound
the wise; and God hath chosen the read more

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound
the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to
confound the things which are mighty;
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath
God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought
things that are:
That no flesh should glory in his presence.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.