Quotes About Mystery

Secrets...are the very root of cool.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

Indeed, God intended, by this way of rec onciling poor sinners to himself, to make work for angels and saints to admire the mystery of his wisdom, power, and love therein, to everlasting.

Some books are learned at once reading, but the gospel is a mystery that will take up more than thy lifetime to understand it.

They are all such notions as never came into the heart of the wisest sophists in the world to conceive of; and therefore it is no wonder that a little child, under the preaching of the gospel, believes these mysteries which Plato and Aristotle were ignorant of, because they are not attained by our parts and industry, but communicated by divine and supernatural revelation.

Some screw for science only in the afternoon, while others keep their faith with evening—here Orcutt chuckled—it's a matter of light, I understand, but which makes which I can't remember.

One thing—one thing exceeds the eternity of the star, he cries, and that is the dark which surrounds it.

Leaves move in the windows. I cannot tell you yet how beautiful it is, what it means. But they do move. They move in the glass.

Quantum physicist John Wheeler expressed it this way, when discussing the search for the clockwork mechanism that runs the world, "There may be no such thing as the 'glittering central mechanism of the universe' to be seen behind a glass wall at the end of the trail. Not machinery but magic may be the better description of the treasure that is waiting.

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

Well, Sir, we do like to find out who kills people and why.

All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.

We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slake our thirst.

We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slate our thirst.

All along the avenue, cotton candy stands, fun houses, and games of chance were tightly shuttered, like clowns without makeup.

William Hjortsberg

William Hjortsberg

Well, how we going to sleep with that going on?" his wife demanded, not unreasonably. "Are they making love, or are they sore at each other, or are they just suffering down there?" ("I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes")

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.