Quotes About Mystery

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed—but

For all we have learned, the fact remains that we do not understand in any meaningful way why people do what they do, and likely never will.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed...

I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness and the more excited I become about Bible doctrine. Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God, rigorous and earnest effort to understand him is richly rewarded with deeper appreciation of who he is, more confidence in his reality and care, and a more intelligent and profound worship of his person.

The first question which should rightly be asked is: Why is there something rather than nothing?

Instead he lifted up his head and turned his neck so he could catch sight of the man just as he reached the back of the house—a darkly clothed figure with short legs and broad shoulders, his wide back hunched and powerful, running quite quickly despite a slight limp, ripping open the door with massive arms, tearing out into the light, glancing back with a quick twist of his huge neck before jumping like a cheetah over the fence.

As if he had said, Forasmuch as ye know ye were made capable of this state of holiness, entered into a society with Christ, and made heirs of His glory, not by any human means, but by such a mysterious instance of love, as infinitely exceeds everything that can be thought of in this world; since God has redeemed you to Himself, and your own happiness, at so great a price;

once believed I was a foundling with royal blood—Plantagenet, I think it was. I don't know how I managed to get on my parents' doorstep,

Mrs. Penmark said that she was, adding that the child, almost from babyhood, had been something of a riddle both to herself and her husband. It was a thing difficult to isolate, or identify, but there was a strangely mature quality in the child's character which they found disturbing.

I don't believe environment had much to do with it. It must be something deeper than that. She sighed, raised her head, and looked at Mrs. Breedlove once more, thinking: It was something dark. Something dark and unexplainable.

A crime you're trying to solve is a temporary

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.

My only fear is the unknown.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...

Humanities are the instructors of enchantment.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

There is water at the bottom of the ocean.

We live in a world where to be powerless is a risk The future is not a mystery but a function of what we do today

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

Like the God in whose image people are made, people are irreducible. There's always more to a person - more stories, more life, more complexities - than we know. The human person, when viewed properly, is unfathomable, incalculable, and dear. Perversion always says otherwise.

It is one of the fundamental mysteries of nature, this dichotomy between what is given and what we, with our minds, create. We owe our very existence as a species to our ability to delineate patterns. We can even see patterns where none exist – the faces in a sun-lit curtain, the Greek heroes and monsters among the stars. What else might the human mind be recognizing that is not really there? And what, in any case, do we mean by "real"?

the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Indeed, there are some mysteries that must exist without answer. In the end we must accept them for what they are: complex and many-sided, ornamented with clues and theories, yet ultimately unknowable—like life itself.