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In the theological cosmos, human understanding have for thousands of years travel into the boundless expanse of divine contemplation. Theology, we can describe it as a metaphysical odyssey, navigates the depths of faith and reason, probing the ineffable mysteries that lie beyond the empirical grasp. Here, questions echo like cosmic whispers, and the soul becomes a celestial navigator, charting a course through the luminous constellations of belief. Theology is the transcendent voyage where the finite seeks the infinite, and in the celestial screenplay of revelation, humanity glimpses the cosmic choreography that orchestrates the divine order.

– Martin Tobias Lithner

added by huyenhuyen19921992
5 months ago

The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it! I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love suffering, madness. He searches himself, he exhausts all poisons in himself, to keep only the quintessences. Ineffable torture where he needs all his faith, all his superhuman strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed one--and the supreme Scholar! For he reaches the unknown! ....So the poet is actually a thief of Fire!”

– Arthur Rimbaud

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.

– Vanna Bonta

added by quotable
9 years ago

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

– Elbert Hubbard

added by anonymous
14 years ago

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

– James Grover Thurber

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.

– Caldwell O'Keefe

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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