Suprarational

My belief in Jesus did not seem rational or scientific, and yet there was nothing I could do to separate myself from this belief.  I think Laura was looking for something rational, because she believed that all things that were true were rational.  But that isn't the case.  Love, for example, is a true emotion, but it is not rational. What I mean is, people actually feel it.  I have been in love, plenty of people have been in love, yet love cannot be proved scientifically.  Neither can beauty.  Light cannot be proved scientifically, and yet we all believe in light and by light see all things.  There are plenty of things that are true and don't make any sense.  I think one of the problems Laura was having was that she wanted God to make sense.  He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

--Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz

On symbol, aesthetics, etc...

Even as the painter and the writers seek to bring all the colors and all the metaphors and similies to bear on elucidating the truth of life, so, then, there must be the same employment if we are to reveal God or allow him to be revealed.

--James Johnson in Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail (Webber)

Quotable

Because of creation and even more because of incarnation there is nothing profane for those who know how to see.

--Teilhard de Chardin