Donald Miller Quotes

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

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Sometimes there are no answers.

Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with 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.

I just want people to be able to put on 'American Boyfriend' and accept to not know. To not know anything about everything.

You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything and know that we don't, that's the important part.

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

The world is not always ours to understand.

but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Nobody knows anything.

Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

It is good to love the unknown.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

It is unwise to wish everything explained.