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"If we had to explain even the sense of bodily hunger to a person who had never felt it, we should be hard put to it for words."

"For a manifestation of the influence exerted by the psychical upon the physical we need in fact go no further than the power of our will to move our body-the power, that is, of a spiritual cause to bring about a mechanical effect. There assuredly is an absolutely insoluble riddle, and it is only the fact that we have grown so used to it that prevents it from seeming a miracle to us."

Gregory of Nyssa "But if one asks for the interpretation or description or explanation of the divine nature we shall not deny that in such a science as this we are unlearned...For there is no way of comprehending the indefinable as it is by a scheme of words. For the Divine is too noble and too lofty to be indicated by a name: and we have learned to honour by silence that which transcends reason and thought."

"Chrysostom...is combating the arrogance and overweening presumptuousness of the human understanding and the creature in general in imagining that any escape is possible from the incomprehensible, supreme, transcendent, and 'wholly other' nature of God."