pass all belief BrE
pass all understanding

It had been "a state of things such as would pass all belief".

There then began a thing that passes all belief.

Yet really I should not be surprised: the imbecility of your sailor ashore passes all belief.

The impeccable incongruity of it all, Smith reflected, passed all belief.

When he added to that by introducing The Cobra, his boldness passed all belief."

It passes all belief!

His impudence, certes, passed all belief.

A peace that, to coin a phrase, passed all understanding.

In the south Wilson experienced the peace that passes all understanding.

God's ways are wonderful and mysterious, passing all understanding.

That better way is the way of the peace of God which passes all understanding.

This given reality is an infinite which passes all understanding and yet admits of being directly and in some sort totally apprehended.

Indeed, it passed all understanding.

And then the piece of God which passes all understanding will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Only one man can be married to the most beautiful woman in the universe, and it passes all understanding that that one man should be Peter feeney.

This book is dedicated to our Arab and Jewish friends in and around the Middle East who are pouring out their very lives for the peace that passes all understanding.

That they should arrive wholly unprepared for the rigours ahead - that was folly enough; that they should inflict such horror on their wives and offspring passed all understanding.

At least Josie had loved her son once, before they grew apart, and she must still feel a mother's love for him, a love which surely passes all understanding and forgives a multitude of sins.

Under U.N. law each emigrant automatically received possession of an android subtype of his choice, and, by 1990, the variety of subtypes passed all understanding, in the manner of American automobiles of the ig6os.

And that means it often asks you to go beyond, even against yourself; to risk being outraged and disoriented alongside the sweetness, light and peace that passes all understanding; to imagine a world that has imagined only parts of you, or has not yet imagined you at all.

When we turn to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, God will fill us with the peace which passes all understanding, nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God which is expressed in Jesus Christ his son, our Lord.

The zeal and animation which fills these three ships, with the various exhibitions of maritime skill, passes all understanding: most of the officers are as deeply concerned as the men; but I must say that Captain Aubrey seems somewhat oppressed, and if he did not have official business ashore I think he might succumb.'

Mr President, what this boils down to is that this Statute for Members of the European Parliament, with which we are dealing, is a never-ending story, and the way in which it has gone backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards, in this House for years on end, actually passes all understanding.