Limitless Expanse Quotes

I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.

God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.

As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. Im overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless

Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening.

The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.

The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure.

I love the sea because it is boundless.

I feel like the universe is so big it'd be foolish to pull out the "no" for it.

And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

I think the universe is so big you can't really deal with everybody.

Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.

She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky.

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.

Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.