Ask and You Shall Receive - Part 2

A man was able to speak to God and he asked, "God, is it true that a million years are in your eyes like a second?" God answered, "Yes, that is true."

The man continued, "So, God, is a million dollars in your eyes like a penny?" God answered, "Yes, that is true, too."

The man asked, "God, could you give me a penny?"

God answered, "Sure. In a second."

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God transcends all creatures. We must therefore continually purify our language of everythng in it that is limited, imagebound, or imperfect, if we are not to confuse our image of God- "the inexpressible, the incomprehensible, the invisible, the ungraspable"-with our human representations. Our human words always fall short of the mystery of God. (Catholic Catechism Par. 42)

Admittedly, in speaking about God like this, our language is using human modes of expression; nevertheless it really does attain to God himself, though unable to express him in his infinite simplicity. Likewise, we must recall that "between Creator and creature no similitude can be expressed without implying an even greater dissimilitude"; and that "concerning God, we cannot grasp what his is, but only what he is not, and how other beings stand in relation to him." (Catholic Catechism Par. 43