Quotes About Mystery

The gospel is not at all what we would come up with on our own.

prayer incorporates the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of God's grace.

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him. And they cried out in a great voice: He made us. CS Lewis

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

Some women attract desire. Others do not.

When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

Men command the world that they know . Everything that men know they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who took for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover,they hug to themselves: they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown?

There was a magic: and the name of it was love.

I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned.

For a moment I felt the terror. The deep primeval terror of something one does not understand, something which is against nature or, at the least, against everything one has ever seen or known before.

Twelfth night, of all the nights of the year, is one where shapes shift and identities flicker.

He shrugged. "Whatever does it mean? We write poems about it all day and sing songs about it all night but if there is such a thing in real life I'm damned if I know.

There is nothing but the gleam of mysterious light—not dawn and yet not starlight—where the unlit earth meets the night-black sky, and the only sound is the haunting call of the owls.

The truth is the last thing that matters, she said. And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

She did not look like my sister, she did not look like any mortal woman at all. She carried herself as if she were the greatest queen that had ever been born. We

Men command the world that they know," she says. "Everything that men know, they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who look for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover, they hug to themselves; they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown?

He used to - when he was just a kitten - stand and stare up at us as if asking a question. We never understood what the question was. Maybe now he knows the answer.

Here on this deck, millions of other universes exist unaware of one another... He raised his wings and spread them wide before folding them again. There, he said, I have just brushed ten million other worlds, and they knew nothing of it. We are close as a heartbeat, but we can never touch or see or hear these other worlds...

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

He will never understand what happened that day between a young man and a young woman. There was a magic: and the name of it was love.

She felt other eyes on her. The madam, a blue-skinned Varvani woman, was standing in the doorway; she balanced her elephantine legs on gold clogs, and the enormous bosom above her chain-mail skirt was tattooed with red kissystars... Don't block the window, dear heart. You want a sample, come on in.

Mind if we check the other rooms to make sure?" an officer asked Dad. "Please do," said Father. "If there's a body lying around up here, I want to know about it.