“If, therefore, man has come into the world to search for God and, if he has found Him, to adhere to Him and to find repose in adhering to Him-man cannot search for Him and attain Him in this sensible and corporeal world, since God is spirit rather than body, and cannot be attained in intellectual abstraction, since one is able to conceive nothing similar to God, as he asserts-how can one, therefore, search for Him in order to find Him?” IfsMenWorldBodyAbleSpiritOrderFoundIntellectualReal WorldSensibleAbstractionRepose Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace, and that the goodness of the Almighty God is so great that He hears those who invoke His name, and they gain salvation, became humble, acknowledging that they are ignorant, and directed their life as the life of one desiring eternal wisdom. And that is the life of the virtuous, who proceed in the desire for the other life, which is commended by the saints.” DesireNamesGivenSawsGraceGoodnessEternalIntellectualGainsSalvationSaintHumbleIgnorantVirtuousAlmightyAlmighty GodInvokeIntellectual Life Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“For our intellectual spirit has the power of fire in itself. For no other purpose is it sent by God to the earth than that it glow and grow into a flame. When it is excited by admiration, then it grows, just as if the wind entering into a fire excited its potential to actuality. If we apprehend the works of God, we marvel at eternal wisdom.” IfsEarthSpiritPurposeGrowsFireWindEternalIntellectualExcitedFlamesAdmirationEnteringActuality Author:Nicholas of Cusa
