Norman Maclean Quotes

but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

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

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.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.

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.

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.

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

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.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

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.

The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.

We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we feel it, and we think we know it, yet we cannot say what we mean by it.

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

It is good to love the unknown.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.