PROXIMATE TO ALL, CONTAINED BY NONE

When the Emperor Ptolemy sacked Jerusalem in 63 AD, and entered the Holy of Holies in the Great Temple, he was baffled to find an empty room -- no picture, ascription or image. Emptiness is a negative description of the God who cannot be named, described or contained." (Colin Morris, The Word and the Words)

"The characteristic form of God's presence is absence" (Deny Turner)