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Quotes About Mystery

I think it's better to know that you don't know, that way you can grow with the mystery as the mystery grows in you. But, these days, of course, everybody knows everything, that's why so many people are so lost.
~ James Baldwin
No man can say whether you are happy or not until you die, for no man knows misfortunes may overtake you or what misery may be yours in place of all this slendor.
~ James Baldwin
Starlings circle in the sky, conspiring, together, and alone, unspeakable journeys into and out of the light.
~ James Baldwin
If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.
~ James Carlos Blake
The absence of Jesus is the mode of his presence.
~ James Carroll
You don't know for certain about God until you're dead.
~ James Clavell
He had long since discovered that peaceful sleep could provide the answer to most puzzles, and if not, what did it really matter? Wasn't life just a dewdrop within a dewdrop?
~ James Clavell
If you allow Their chill to reach Into the great, great deep, You become one with them, Inarticulate.
~ James Clavell
Jurata, Queen of the Baltic.
~ James Conroyd Martin
Miracles only occur when sanctity is acknowledged. We Muslims believe in the Lord Jesus. He may not be Allah, but he was surely a very pure person. We honor him in our thoughts and our prayers." "Certainly Sultan Malik recognized the mystery of his presence," I replied. "I know for a fact that he and Saint Francis of Assisi deeply respected one another, both acknowledging the power of their mutual faith.
~ James Cowan
Breuning drove. Dudley sat up front Carlisle sat in back, with three sawed-off shotguns.
~ James Ellroy
The overarching joy and lasting appeal of noir is that it makes doom fun.
~ James Ellroy
Bergen, and Oldfield. The
~ James Ellroy
eunuch's tit—
~ James Ellroy
Mini-Manson" case
~ James Ellroy
and they got a 459 thing going.
~ James Ellroy
We travel not for trafficking alone; By hotter winds our hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
~ James Elroy Flecker
Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or pass not singing. Have you heard That silence where the birds are dead yet something pipeth like a bird?
~ James Elroy Flecker
The fatality rate is 100%. But then things get very weird.
~ James Evans
We meditate that we might learn to see through Christ's eyes the divine mystery of all that surrounds us.
~ James Finley
ways of prayer often call forth a kind of knowing that passes beyond clear ideas and the ordinary way of thinking.
~ James Finley
To practice meditation as an act of religious faith is to open ourselves to the endlessly reassuring realization that our very being and the very being of everyone and everything around us is the generosity of God. For God is creating us in the present moment, loving us into being, such that our very presence in the present moment is the manifested presence of God. We meditate that we might awaken to this unitive mystery, not just in meditation, but in every moment of our lives.
~ James Finley
Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.
~ James Frey
Why do we need time travel, when we already travel through space so far and fast? For history. For mystery. For nostalgia. For hope. To examine our potential and explore our memories. To counter regret for the life we lived, the only life, one dimension, beginning to end.
~ James Gleick