there is in the mind no knowledge of god except the...

There is in the mind no knowledge of God except the knowledge that it does not know Him.

Every statement about the transcendental ought to be avoided because it is a laughable presumption on the part of the

human mind, unconscious of its limitations.

F.C. Happold

Tuesday 24 July 12

Seeing is not believing … What we learn from experience depends on the kind of

philosophy we bring to experience.C.S. Lewis

Tuesday 24 July 12

I look at you as at the passage of the word into flesh, of the flesh into word, a lasting incarnation, the fulfillment of which is not perceptible by whoever does not keep his or her gaze upon the invisible.Luce Irigaray

Tuesday 24 July 12

Ek vind rus in die aanvaarding van God as misterie.Ek het die onrus van die ou dogmatiese sekerhede ontvlug.

Almero Cloete

Tuesday 24 July 12

“I will open my mouth to speak in parables;I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”Matt. 13: 35

Tuesday 24 July 12

I don’t like biologists who talk about man as if he were only a pan of brains, and I like theologians even less who seeing him shattered,

insult the remains.Sheila Cussons

Tuesday 24 July 12

Nothing real can be threatened.Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God.Anon

Tuesday 24 July 12

Never question the truth of what you fail to understand for the world is filled with wonders.Anon

Tuesday 24 July 12

Anyone who tries to describe the ineffableLight in language is truly a liar …not because he hates the truth butbecause of the inadequacy of his description.St. Gregory of Nyassa

Tuesday 24 July 12

Ons Vader, wat nêrens woon nie en oral blyLaat U Naam wyd en gewyd bly, hoe dit ook syLaat U Ryk ons kom en gaan bepaalU nuwe wêreld ons stukkie vir stukkie kom haalSoos in die hemel, so ook op die aarde.Leer ons om ‘n dag op ‘n slag te leefEn vergewe ons as ons die punt mis, nes ons ander vergewe wat ook die punt mis.Laat ons soeke nie in versoekings ontaard nieEn ons vind nie dié van die Bose wees nieWant niks is soos U IS nieEn U is al en alles in ons wat ISU IS en IS en ISVir ewig en ewigAmenFrieda van den Heever

Tuesday 24 July 12

Sometimes a man humbles himself in his heart, submits the visible to the power to see, and seeks to return to his source. He seeks, he finds, and he returns to his source.René Daumal

Tuesday 24 July 12

Be Thou my vision, O God of my heart;Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art;Thou my best thought, by day or by night,Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

Tuesday 24 July 12

Riches I heed not, nor world's empty praise,Thou my inheritance, now and always;Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,Still be my vision, O Ruler of all.

Anonymous Irish (1860-1935)

Tuesday 24 July 12

In terugkeer en rus lê ons heil, en in stil wees en vertroue lê ons krag...In terugkeer en rus lê ons heil, en in stil wees en vertroue lê ons krag...Wees stil en weet “Ek is die Heer”Wees stil en weet Ek ISWees stil en weetWees stil enwees

Tuesday 24 July 12

Dead religion All religions, at one point or another in their evolution tried to proclaim their single, inerrant consistency. All religions even the most liberal, were tempted by the reactionary impulse to freeze faith in place. Because as Jesus teaches, it's easy to be threatened by the reality of the complicated, messy, syncretic, God-bearing truth that becomes incarnate among us and makes things new. We'd rather have a dead religion than a living God. Sarah Miles

Tuesday 24 July 12

Lord of the winds, I cry to Thee,I that am dust,And blown about by every gustI fly to Thee.

Lord of the waters, unto Thee I call.I that am weed upon the waters borne,And by the waters torn,Tossed by the waters, at Thy feet I fall.

Mary Coleridge (1861-1907)

Tuesday 24 July 12

Meester U is skoonMeester iets verniel myMeester en U is skoon:Onversoek-versoek: Soeke van my siel Sheila Cussons

Tuesday 24 July 12

Crypt

I have folded my hands and I have prayedI who thought Him before I sought HimI who sought Him before I thought HimI have folded my hands and I have prayed

Tuesday 24 July 12

It’s a mystery God has made known to us … according to his good pleasure.Eph. 1

God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery.Col. 1

Tuesday 24 July 12

My desire is that people may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God.Col. 2

… dat hulle harte vertroos mag word, deurdat hulle saamgevoeg word in die liefde en tot alle rykdom van die volle versekerdheid van insig, om die verborgenheid te leer ken van God en die Vader en van Christus, in wie al die skatte van wysheid en kennis verborge is.Kol. 2: 2-3

Tuesday 24 July 12

UncannyThe uncanny (Ger. Das Unheimliche - "the opposite of what is familiar") is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange or uncomfortably familiar.[1]

Because the uncanny is familiar, yet strange, it often creates cognitive dissonance within the experiencing subject due to the paradoxical nature of being attracted to, yet repulsed by an object at the same time. This cognitive dissonance often leads to an outright rejection of the object, as one would rather reject than rationalize.

Tuesday 24 July 12

HEIMLICH

I. homely / home-likefamiliarintimatecomfortabledomestic

(to those living in the house)II. secret

hiddenconcealedwithheld from sight

(for the outsider)

UNHEIMLICH

I. un-homelyunfamiliaruncomfortableeeriestrange

II. no-longer-secretunhiddenrevealedthe hidden exposed

Tuesday 24 July 12

Paul Simon is a "God chronicler by accident." This is true. And this is what is missing from American religion. We're all so self-assured of the fact that we believe in God, or know God, or that God speaks through us. We are all so certain of something that is beautiful and enduring precisely because it does not lend itself to certainty.

Paul Simon is not certain. He's unsure, and confused. He had a long conversation with the late theologian John Stott and what he took away from it was that they both enjoyed the conversation. That's the kind of thing an uncertain person takes away from a long conversation with a great theologian. A certain person would walk away either angry or affirmed.

Jonathan Fitzgerald

Tuesday 24 July 12

Flannery O'Connor was a great Catholic writer because her writing celebrated the mystery that comes with writing about God. This is why we don't put her in the camp of "Christian authors." Christian authors, for the most part, in fact most Christian artists, don't celebrate the mystery of God. They don't revel in the uncertainty that literally defines faith. They make bold claims and feign intimate realizations. They talk like they know what the hell they're talking about.

But they don't. No one does. And it has always been this way. Moses didn't write like he knew what he's talking about. He even had to ask God his name. David, in the Psalms, lives in the questions he has about God. Job too. The four Gospels can't even get the story straight; certainty was never their aim. We read Paul like he's certain, but if you read closely he shared in the mystery too.

Tuesday 24 July 12

And Jesus. The international man of mystery. Nobody ever knew what Jesus was really talking about. Destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days? Wait, like, the real temple right over there?Or, whoever wishes to save his life must lose it?The first shall be last?Turn the other cheek?Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me?These are the days of miracles and wonders?Okay, that last one was Paul Simon. But that's the point. We need to return to mystery and get back to the questions. We need to stop pretending we have it all figured out. I need to stop writing like I know what we need.But it's so deeply ingrained. Paul Simon and I have a lot of things in common, height included, but he's a much better chronicler of God than I'll ever be.

Tuesday 24 July 12

SO BEAUTIFUL OR SO WHAT (Paul Simon)

I'm gonna make a chicken gumboToss some sausage in the potI'm gonna flavor it with okraCAYENNE pepper to make it hotYou know life is what we make of itSo beautiful or so whatI'm gonna tell my kids a bedtime storyA play without a plotWill it have a happy ending?Maybe yeah, Maybe notI tell them life is what you make of itSo beautiful or so whatSo beautiful, so beautifulSo what

Tuesday 24 July 12

I'm just a raindrop in a bucketA coin DROPPED in a slotI am an empty house on Weed StreetAcross the road from a vacant lotYou know life is what you make of itSo beautiful or so what

Aint it strange the way we're ignorantHow we seek out bad adviceHow we jigger it and figure itMistaking value for the priceAnd play a game with time and LoveLike a pair of rolling diceSo beautiful, so beautifulSo what

Tuesday 24 July 12

Four men on the balconyOverlooking the parking lotPointing at a figure in the distanceDr. King has just been shotAnd the sirens long melodySinging savior pass me notAint it strange the way we're ignorantHow we seek out bad adviceHow we jigger it and figure itMistaking value for the priceAnd play a game with time and loveLike a pair of rolling diceSo beautiful, so beautifulSo what

Tuesday 24 July 12

Tuesday 24 July 12

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