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Quotes About Mystery

God hid the whole world in thy heart.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.
~ Reba McEntire
If God was small enough for you to completely understand him, he wouldn't be big enough for you to completely trust him.
~ Rick Warren
Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
If you understand, it is not God.
~ Saint Augustine
We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.
~ Saint Augustine
If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?
~ Dara O Briain
We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.
~ Frank Wedekind
You know, it is not God's desire to conceal but to reveal. The word revelation means "unveiling."
~ Greg Laurie
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
~ Jean Anouilh
If you understood him, it would not be God.
~ Augustine of Hippo
Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows
~ Robert Frost
It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.
~ John Piper
He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.
~ Josef Pieper
God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
~ Leo Strauss
I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
~ Theodore Bikel
You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.
~ Albert Einstein
I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.
~ Albert Einstein
God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.
~ Cesare Lombroso
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
~ Cesare Lombroso
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.
~ T. S. Eliot
Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.
~ Timothy Keller
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
~ Truman Capote