Sentences with phrase «to know the unknowable»

We can never fully know the unknowable, only point towards it taking baby steps.
Sometimes the wound is apparently random and meaningless; to teach us there isn't a reason for everything, that we can't get our heads around it all, that not understanding and just trusting is the essence of faith — faith that takes us beyond our concept of God, which is always limited, towards a place of knowing the unknowable.
I love to see when people create a super human being that is beyond knowing, then have the arrogance or self - delusion to believe that they and they're group of «special» super friends alone can know this unknowable being.
Or is it also means to know self and to know the unknowable other and outsider too?
Believers, who feel they magically know the unknowable, are so happy pinning the «arrogant» label on non-believers, as if that settles the issue.
That's what religion does, pretends to know the unknowable.
The only channel to know the unknowable / un-nameable Creator.
We do not want all the bloodshed, teaching of pseudo science to children, the corruption of children's minds, government subsidies to those who claim to know the unknowable, elected leaders who consult with the supernatural in their decision - making, and the list just goes on and on.
I, on the other hand, do not claim to know the unknowable.
The worst thing about religion is that it teaches its followers to pretend to know the unknowable and to be certain.
It is an attempt to know the Unknowable; to understand the Incomprehensible.
Religion is humankind's attempt to try and know the unknowable and / or control the uncontrollable believing the god made in their image can be manipulated by faith, prayer, sacrifice, obedience, and ritual..
Those are the ones that come up with aphorisms like «don't confuse the pointing finger for the moon», «reality is a projection of our thoughts», «we must know the unknowable», «God is beyond our understanding, but through Jesus we can know God.»
I don't really believe in any higher power in particular or any at all, but I also don't claim to know the unknowable.
What if we were to drop the pretense of familiarity, the hubris of claiming to know the unknowable and trying to nail down the transcendent?
The important idea is that your investing decisions should be based on your personal goals and a clear understanding of risk — not on the useless forecasts of people who claim to know the unknowable.
It is a scientific fact that Global Warming provides the means for the ignorant to declare with absolute certainty that they know the unknowable — Laika The Space Dog
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