Beyond Explanation Quotes

The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.

Some things were beyond understanding.

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

Some things are beyond human understanding.

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.