Logo
Quote by Samuel Butler
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Faith
Author
Samuel Butler
Read Quote

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Culture
Author
Samuel Butler
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
God
category

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. – Lee Trevino

Category:
God

Theres only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
God

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Category:
God

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead. – William Law

Category:
God

Random Quotes

Ive discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen. – Charles A. Garfield

Category:
Visualization

Even if we dont know it or arent aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives. – Roland Joffe

Category:
Politics

It doesnt make any sense… thats why I trust it! – Kate Winslet

Category:
Trust

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. – Pablo Casals

Category:
Courage