Lillian Gish Quotes

I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

I definitely believe there is more than what can be seen. I don't know if it's anything that you'd consider omens or signs, but yes... I believe in something more.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that can't be proven. I don't know, I don't think that's it.

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.

What does it mean to believe rather than to know? To surrender to something that's not fact but faith?

I am probably spiritual in the sense that I do believe there is more to life than what we see.

I think there is more to this world than we can possibly fathom. There's got to be.

We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning.

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.

If you understand, it is not God.

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

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.

Well, I can't figure out God.