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Quotes About Mystery

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
~ Samuel Butler
Oh, I don't talk about God.
~ Shepard Smith
It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.
~ Stephen Hawking
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Only God knows that. He is the only one who knows. He is only one who will know. And he is the only one who does know.
~ Manny Pacquiao
Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.
~ Paulo Coelho
In the end, we know God as unknown.
~ Thomas Aquinas
God Almighty does not throw dice.
~ Albert Einstein
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
~ Bette Midler
The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
~ Bill Vaughan
God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.
~ Brennan Manning
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.
~ D. A. Carson
We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.
~ Thomas Carlyle
God is so great, he does not even need to exist.
~ Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.
~ L. P. Jacks
God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!
~ Martin Buber
No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.
~ Michael Cadnum
We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.
~ Os Guinness
Oh, my God. I've just told you how old I am. Nobody knows how old I am. I'm going to have to kill you now.
~ Rita Rudner
When we talk about GOD, we're like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea.
~ Rumi
You believe God is not there, but He is, Hidden in the secret of the divine mystery
~ Rumi
If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.
~ Rumi
Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.
~ Stanislaw Lem
Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business.
~ Dave Chappelle