"The Holy, as a name for God, emphsises that God is other, above, majestic. God cannot be understood from below. God cannot be accounted for by what we imagine God might be. God cannot be argued into belief by philosophical reasoning. God cannot be explained or interpreted by notions we have aquired by assembling feelings of reverence from sunsets, spiked with a few stories of miracles, and then legitimated with some comments that we pick up from celebrity interviews. God cannot be subsumed under the categories that we use to classify and order our experience. Holy alerts us to an awareness that God "is different, that in his way he is himself, though not far away, but rather near at hand, in the sphere of the present, inflaming and assuaging convention." God reveals himself. Because of who God is, The Holy, we have to let God tell us who he is. If we insist on using our ideas to form our image of God, we will get it all wrong."
- Eugene H. Peterson, The Jesus Way. p141. Hodder and Stoughton, London (2007).
Quote from K.H Miskotte, When the Gods are silent, p. 183. Collins, London (1967)
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