Walter Terence Stace: Quotes about God

Walter Terence Stace was British civil servant, educator and philosopher.. Explore interesting quotes on god.
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“The great error of traditional proofs of the existence of god is that they try to take a symbolic truth for a literal truth, a truth of fact, and then try to prove that it is a fact.”

Walter Terence Stace

p. 149.

God , Truth , Error

“But the divine mystery is inherent in the divine, a part of the nature of God, and can never disappear. And this means that it is still a mystery even to the mystic who has directly experienced it, nay, even to God Himself. That is why it is ineffable. The mystery and the ineffability of God are one and the same thing.”

Walter Terence Stace

p. 37

God , Nature , Parting

“Thus to say that God is ineffable is to say that no concepts apply to Him, and that He is without qualities.”

Walter Terence Stace

p. 33.

God

“How is it possible for both naturalism and religion - atheism and theism, if you prefer it - to be but two sides of one truth, is the same as the problem how God can be both being and non-being, as one of the most ancient religious and mystical insights proclaims he is, or how he can be both the Eternal Yes and the Eternal Nay, as Böhme affirmed.”

Walter Terence Stace

p. VI.

God , Truth , Religion , Nature

“Either God is a Mystery or He is nothing at all.”

Walter Terence Stace

p. 8.

God

“There is no such thing as natural theology. God is either known by revelation - that is to say, by intuition - or not at all.”

Walter Terence Stace

p. 151

God , Nature

“If God does not lie at the end of any telescope, neither does he lie at the end of any syllogism. I can never starting from the natural order prove the divine order. The proof of the divine order must lie, somehow, within itself. It must be its own witness. For it, like the natural order, is complete within itself, self-contained.”

Walter Terence Stace

p. 138.

God , Lie , Nature

“It is only by intuition that the infinite can be apprehended. But why is this? Why cannot the infinite be apprehended by concepts? To see this we must understand that the word "infinite," in the religious sense, has nothing at all to do with that sense of the word in which it is applied to space, time, and the number series. We may call this latter the mathematical infinite to distinguish it from the religious infinite. And it is the confusion between these two which misled us into the false trail of supposing that the infinity of God's mind refers to the amount of His knowledge and that the finitude of man's mind refers to his ignorance. The religious infinite, or in other words the infinity of God, means that than 'which there is no other. In this sense neither space nor time could be infinite, since space is an "other" to time, and time is an "other" to space.”

Walter Terence Stace

p. 46-47.

God , Mathematics , Understanding , Knowledge