Beyond Understanding Quotes

You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

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

It is beyond my apprehension.

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

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

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe.

A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.

Some things are beyond human understanding.

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

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

How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.