A true event is entirely unforeseeable; it is a pure surprise, something impossible to accommodate through existing norms or schemas, something that literally comes upon us out of nowhere and overwhelms our ability to process it.
~ Jan Mieszkowski
...the only rational notion which we can have of God will still be that of His incomprensibility. Consequently, theology must be not so much a quest of positive notions about the divine being as an experience which surpasses all understanding.
~ Vladimir Lossky
"Sin is love of the self... and life is a clash of loves"
~ St Maximos the Confessor
"He picked her up, and followed by the old woman, a few friends and the Brahmin, he carried her to the strand, her head lolling against his shoulder... Prayers, lustration; chanting, lustration: he laid her on the pyre. Pale flames in the sunlight... '...nunc et in hora mortis nostrae,' he repeated yet again, and felt the lap of water on his foot. He looked up. The people had gone; the
pyre was no more than a dark patch with the sea hissing in its embers; and he was alone. The tide was riding fast."
~ Patrick O'Brian. "HMS Surprise"
