Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Because God has an overflowing being, he transcends all knowledge.


"Because God has an overflowing being, he transcends all knowledge."

Meister Eckhart, 14th century Germany

Photo: Colorado Columbines proliferating just below Lake of Many Winds, Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; June 25, 2012.

Since God continually self-empties through love, there is no way the faculty of reason - which must freeze a thing to know it - could ever grasp him in order to examine and know him.

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