penetrate

• A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. —  Planet Atheism
• To be penetrating ever deeper into His fulness, and finding every day new depths to penetrate is to have a fountain of freshness in our dusty days that will never fail or run dry. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
• The Black Sea rivers in ancient times opened their countries to such elements of Hellenic culture as might penetrate from the Greek trading colonies at their mouths, especially the Greek forms of Christianity. —  Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
• The javelins failed to penetrate, the oil streamed harmless off the hides. —  Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion
• I entered a thick wood where no ray of light could penetrate, and at almost every step, I sank over shoes in the mud. —  Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal

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