"words cannot express God"

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. (Matthew 7:7-8 NKJV)

I understand the thrust of the sentiment "words cannot express God". The related set of beloved and trite sayings includes: a picture is worth more than a thousand words, we currently see through a glass darkly, mysterious ways, etc. And just as nobody knows me completely, e.g. the actual breadth and depth of my thoughts and motivations, still fewer could claim the same for God. While we in our finiteness are yet unpredictable, God is beyond us in every way. So God is inescapably unknown and more holy and mysterious than we can comprehend.

However, there is a definite "flip side" to this coin in Christianity, and to say or act otherwise is excessive.

• For all the failure of words to express God, He has selected words and spoken to humanity, about Himself and other topics (including minute details of temple architecture), time after time. To be sure, Yahweh (YHWH, "I am") is clear about how He cannot and shall not be literally portrayed as anything lesser than a simply-infinite unity (hence, no idols), but He does use a range of metaphors like father and king and so forth. The metaphors are by definition fallible; God chose them anyway as expressions of Himself.
• Christianity obviously professes that one of God's forms, that of a human, lived on Earth and went by the name Jesus ("Yeshua" depending on whether you suffer from hyper-pretension). Why would God do this, if He was trying to maintain an "image" of being remote and exalted and unknowable? Moreover, why would Jesus have then spent so much time teaching, offering up so many words to reveal secrets that are "hidden from the wise"? We can hardly expect the Creator Lord of the universe to be more forthcoming with expressive words.

It's true that words cannot express God, His ways are not our ways, and we need no longer settle for a mediator to make contact with Him. Don't extrapolate those truths to mean that the deepest wells of Christian faith and knowledge are somehow nonverbal, or that its essence consists of tingly goosebumps during protracted prayer sessions. As God is there and not silent (hmm, sounds like a book title), we His followers shouldn't disengage from reality nor remain silent about Him.