Quotes About Mystery

Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.

Curiously, ghosts are rarely if ever seen in the nude. They appear fully clothed, and may even change clothing on subsequent appearances. They may change their form, to appear as they looked at different stages of their lives. Unless someone out there knows of an extoplasmic department store on the spiritual plane, we have to wonder, "Where do the clothes and accessories come from?"

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

A child said What is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he." ?— ?Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself

Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

The first mystery was that the rows of candles under each of the statues of Jesus and Mary and Joseph were all flickering and trembling as if there were gusts of wind when in fact the vast church was shut tight and none of the heavy doors were open. I believed that the spirit of God in the statues was so strong it made the candles flutter and hiss, tremulous with suffering. Each tiny burst of light lit up the caked blood on Jesus's bony white feet and it looked wet.

Dreams are great magicians.

they are shrouding words so that families cannot find them.

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing. Lucille Clifton

Hay tales misterios en el corazón humano; abismos tan profundos, de amor, de abnegación, de generosidad, que la palabra no conseguirá jamás explicarlos. Hay que sentir y callar. Por eso una mirada, un abrazo, un ademán con la mano, dicen más que todo cuanto la pluma más hábilmente manejada pueda describir.

The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.

For men know not what the nature of the soul is; whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary, it is infused into us at our birth, whether it perishes with us, dissolved by death, or whether it haunts the gloomy shades and vast pools of Orcus.

God forgives us, as—when—we forgive them who injure us—and ourselves. These last weeks I think I have understood what many times in the past I thought I knew—but we never know—we never reach the end of understanding—the understanding of God—the mystery of his love...

She stood eating soup in her overgrown garden, looking up at stars she could not name.

All along, she had given him the sort of On-Off treatment scientists use to drive rats insane. In humans, this merely leads to a state of high anxiety. She was a mystery to him. A mystery banana.

Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes." St. Matthew 11:25.

When I first met Pierce Maverick, taking in his dark hair and sultry brown eyes, I never imagined he'd be the catalyst to awaken the beast; the sexual animal within me. There were rumors, so many rumors, about what happened between us in Las Vegas. The tape, the accessories, the third parties – the Sunday "arrangement". Speculations even fueled

Divine grace is the power of chance beclouded with additional mystery. … Religion denies, repudiates chance, making everything dependent on God, explaining everything by means of him; … the divine will … determines or predestines some to evil and misery, others to good and happiness, has not a single positive characteristic to distinguish it from the power of chance. The mystery of the election of grace is thus the mystery of chance.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

there is still something about faith that I cannot let go of. I do not know what this world is, but I know that it contains miracles that I cannot explain, and the love that people have for each other is the biggest mystery of all.

That," she says, "was never here before.