There is a sense in which this is the deeply Christian version of Socrates’s principle: he didn’t claim to know much, but he knew that he didn’t know and so kept asking questions. Translate that up into fully Trinitarian life and this is what you get: at the very moment when we discover that we ourselves are ‘groaning’ and don’t know what to say or do, at that same moment we find that God himself, God the Holy Spirit, is ‘groaning’ as well, groaning without words.
This is comforting
