Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

There are many things that I don't understand.

Give your approval to all you cannot understand.

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.

The more I see, the less I know.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

Believe that you may understand.

Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.