Couldn't help it, though. This quote from C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man was too good.
You cannot go on "explaining away" forever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on "seeing through" things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window is transparent, because the street or garden beyond is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? ... a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To "see through" all things is the same as not to see.
This helps me take a deep breath when I feel as if I'm slipping beneath the waters of unanswered questions. There is substance to Truth. Truth is opaque. Not only is it opaque, but we can know Him and be known by Him.
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