Fyodor DostoyevskyWe degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.
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“We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him” is a quote by Martin Buber. He suggests that our idea of God is an inadequate concept of the divine. We create God in our own image, so we tend to see God as something that has human traits. This is because we find it impossible to understand the divine by studying it apart from our own existence.
Source: The Idiot
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