"more than we can ask or imagine"

The Jews could not accept God's thinking because it was too preposterous and too wonderful---it staggered the imagination and was not even approaching reason. 

That God does not expect us to earn our salvation---that He gives it freely to those who least deserve it but who most need it---it's just not expected.

That He would place in us His very own Spirit, the Spirit of His own Son, in whom He is well pleased---and then see us as children in whom He is well pleased, astounds us.

Julian of Norwich's Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love, the first book written in English by a woman, ought to be required reading for everyone.  She speaks of Jesus in connection with conception, labor, nursing, and upbringing.  She writes in her 14th c. English of the "homeliness" of God, meaning in our terms of His hospitality;  she writes of the domestic qualities of the motherhood of God and of Jesus, who is wise, loving, and nurturing.  And of the weak, the sinful, the lost, the helpless, the sick and the lonely, she describes God as drawing ever closer in compassion and love, as a mother hovers over her sick child. 

In a time when duty and law and unworthiness were being stressed by the church, this woman was given visions of God's love that were beyond all reason.  No one could accept that God was this forgiving, this compassionate, this merciful, this "weak"  --- except those who most needed this vision of salvation so freely given.

Her most characteristic quotation from Jesus Himself is

You shall see for yourself that all will be well and all manner of things shall be well.

And she comments on His goodness that not only will all things be well, but that we should see "for ourselves" that they shall be well.  If only we could trust Him, we could see this for ourselves.