In its bewildering way paradox can make more sense than something set down plainly. God may give meaning to our lives without our being able to give meaning to God. Let me entertain the vertiginous thought that the meaning of God is the method of His verification namely worship.
“Standing up, Damaris realized that interpretations nearly always are wrong; interpretations in the nature of things being peculiarly personal and limited. The act was personal but infinite, the reasoned meaning was personal and finite. Interpretation of infinity by the finite was pretty certain to be wrong. The thought threw a light on her occupation with philosophies. Philosophy to Plato, to Abelard, to St. Thomas, was an act—the love of wisdom; to her——
But all that was to come. Love or wisdom, her act awaited her. She ran lightly down the stairs.”
(from <i>The Place of the Lion</i> by Charles Williams)
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