Every attempt which, from the beginning that hath no beginning, hath been made to visualize and know God is limited by the exigencies of His own creation - a creation which He, through the operation of His own Will and for the purposes of none other but His own Self, hath called into being. Immeasurably exalted is He above the strivings of human mind to grasp His Essence, or of human tongue to describe His mystery. No tie of direct intercourse can ever bind Him to the things He hath created, nor can the most abstruse and most remote allusions of His creatures do justice to His being.
- Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 317
God's mercy is known through the fruits thereof,
But who save God knows His essence?
No one knows the very essence of God's attributes
But only in their effects and by similitudes.
- Mathnavi of Rumi (E.H. Whinfield tr), The Masnavi Vol 3
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