Unsearchable Quotes
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The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.
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How can man understand God, since he does not yet understand his own mind, with which he endeavors to understand Him? The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable not concealed, but incomprehensible. It is a clear infinity the darkness of the pure, unsearchable sea.
john ruskin— P. 267. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
All is best, though we oft doubt, What the unsearchable dispose Of highest wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close.
john milton— 1671Samson Agonistes, l.1745-8.
For beauty being the best of all we knowSums up the unsearchable and secret aimsOf nature.
robert bridges— The Growth of Love, Sonnet 8.
As the Creator and Preserver of men, Thou art gloriously manifest; butO! how much more gloriously art Thou revealed as reconciling ungrateful enemies to Thyself by the blood of Thy eternal Son. Here Thy beneficence displays its brightest splendor; here Thou dost fully display Thy most magnificent titles; THE LORD, THE LORD GOD, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness. How unsearchable are Thy ways, and Thy paths past finding out!
elizabeth rowe— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 272.
Palestine was the West Point and Annapolis for the world. In that little country God was training up a people out of whom, when the fullness of the time should come, His gospel cadets should emerge, fitted by all the training of all their national history for going out among the heathen and proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ.
william mackergo taylor— P. 417. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
