"Our final difficulty is that God’s beauty defies our ability to comprehend. A helpful word in grappling with divine beauty is ineffable. This word is one of the few that apply because it means “beyond comprehension.” God transcends all aesthetic definition. Human language cannot produce a word that adequately describes something infinitely desirable. A popular phrase captures the ineffability of God’s beauty: It blows our minds. We cannot see God’s beauty (God is spirit); we cannot evaluate it (God transcends humanity’s ability for critique); and we cannot comprehend it (God is infinite, and we are not). So why even attempt to wrap our minds around the beauty of God? For the same reason we enjoy other things that appear infinite and beyond our ability to understand completely. Why do people enjoy gazing out at the ocean or looking up at the sky? We can never take in the entirety of the ocean or the sky. They are visually ineffable. Still, people flock by the millions to the world’s beaches. And who hasn’t found himself lost in the magnitude of the night sky? We seek out these expressions of beauty because what we can see and comprehend draws us to wonders too awesome not to enjoy. Their ineffability is entwined with their desirability. What I cannot see is mysteriously interesting to me and compels me to look all the more. The same is true of God’s beauty and attributes. He is more than we can know and beyond our capacity to absorb. Our finitude limits our comprehension, but what we can see and understand draws us to wonder—which is the prelude to worship."

DeWitt, Steve (2012-03-01). Eyes Wide Open (pp. 16-17). Credo House Publishers. Kindle Edition.

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