Quotes About Mystery

Do you think things always have an explanation?" "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

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.

But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

We human creatures can make watches and clocks and sensitive timing devices, but we don't understand what we're timing.

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

The complete, the true Mrs Whatsit, Meg realized, was beyond human understanding. What she saw was only the game Mrs Whatsit was playing; it was an amusing and charming game, a game full of both laughter and comfort, but it was only the tiniest facet of all the things Mrs Whatsit could be.

The name of God is so awe-full, so unpronounceable, that it has never been used by any of his creatures. Indeed, it is said that if, inadvertently, the great and terrible name of God should be spoken, the universe would explode.

But an acceptable Christianity is not Christian; a comprehensible God is no more than an idol. I don't want that kind of God.

Science, literature, art, theology: it is all the same ridiculous, glorious, mysterious language.

Let us not try to understand the pattern, only rejoice in its beauty.

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

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.

They turned around, and they saw, there by the great rock— wings, it seemed like hundreds of wings, spreading, folding, stretching— and eyes how many eyes can a drive of dragons have? and small jets of flame

and I know he's something more. I guess I'll just have to accept it without understanding it... Maybe that's really the point I was trying to put across.

Fewmets to Mr. Jenkins, anyhow.

Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

There's more to life than just the things that can be explained by encyclopedias and facts. Facts alone are not adequate.

Also there's something very matter-of-fact about pork chops. Heroines of mystery novels are never mentioned eating a dinner of pork chops just before something terrible is about to happen.

Mrs Whatsit shook her beautiful head.

Louise thinks the bad flu strain this autumn, which has caused a lot of deaths, may not be flu at all, but mitochondritis.

you don't have to understand things for them to be.

The haunted house was half in the shadows of the clump of elms in which it stood.

What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear beyond the possibility of comfort?

Charles Wallace nodded. "Mad Dog Branzillo was born in Vespugia. But right here, where we stand, Madoc came and married Zyll and made the roses burn for peace. What happened to the Wind People? Where are they now?" "They were lovers of peace," Gaudior replied shortly. "Your planet does not deal gently with lovers of peace.