"Reason is a beautiful thing, but it must know its limits. 'Lean not on your own understanding'—reason submitted to revelation. Faith goes where reason cannot follow. Trust God's promise even when it contradicts your calculations." — Martin Luther. Lutheran: faith over reason.

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Bill Johnson on Accessing Higher Thoughts - Charismatic (Isaiah 55:8-9)

"God's thoughts are HIGHER—but He wants to SHARE them! Through the Spirit, through prophecy, through revelation, we access HEAVEN'S perspective! Don't stay limited to natural thinking—press into the SUPERNATURAL! God wants to reveal His higher thoughts to YOU!" — Bill Johnson.

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St. Thomas Aquinas on Divine Simplicity - Catholic (Isaiah 55:8-9)

"God's thoughts transcend ours because He IS thought itself—pure act, infinite intellect. We reason discursively; He knows all in one eternal now. The distance between creature and Creator is infinite. Yet through analogy, through revelation, we know truly if not comprehensively." — St.

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