Quote 04 10

The majesty of God surpasses by far our capacity for expression, because it is better to think of God than to talk of Him, and better is He still than what is thought. De Trinitate VII, 4,7

Quote 04 11

What is a torrent? It is like the flow of human mortality. The course of mortals is like the torrent, it is formed from the drops of rain, it grows and overflows, it rumbles as it runs, it falls and rushes, thus slowing down at the end of course. Men are born, they...

Quote 04 7

When that one God of gods is thought about, after all, even by those people who assume there are other gods whether in heaven or on earth, and who invoke and worship them, he is thought about in such a way that our thoughts strive to attain to something, than which...

Quote 04 8

Those philosophers who listened to the supreme and true God; who is the author of the created things, and light of those that need to be known, the good of those that need to be done; who for us is the source of our nature, the truth of our doctrine and the joy of our...

Quote 04 6

But your God is right within, spiritually inside and spiritually in the height. Not even the soul is able to be in contact with Him if it is not able to transcend itself. Enarrationes in psalmos 130, S 2,12
X