Divine Limitation Quotes

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

The law of nature is so unalterable that it cannot be changed by God himself.

No creature, not even the most exalted angel, can understand God or have perfect knowledge of Him.

Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.

Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.

When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

Let the emperor make war on heaven; let him lead heaven captive in his triumph; let him put guards on heaven; let him impose taxes on heaven! He cannot. . . . He gets his sceptre where he first got his humanity; his power where he got the breath of life.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men

As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.

There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.

Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.