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Quotes About Mystery

You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.
~ Janet Morris
The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank.
~ Janet Morris
Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe.
~ Joan D. Chittister
There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.
~ Joel Osteen
God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.
~ John Shelby Spong
What kind of god is it that some human brain can shatter the illusions that have been built up around such a deity? God's a mystery. I'll never be able to tell you what God is.
~ John Shelby Spong
What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.
~ Lew Wallace
I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
~ Marianne Faithfull
Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.
~ Max Lucado
The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!
~ Meher Baba
If this universe is the House of God, then I must say it is quite a dark house despite several hundred billion suns!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
With the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope we have seen that the House of God is the House of Chaos!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
God is predictably unpredictable.
~ R. T. Kendall
God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?
~ Rick Moody
If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.
~ Robert Breault
God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling.
~ Robert Breault
If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.
~ Robert E. Murray
Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?
~ Rumi
God is an iron... and that's a hot one.
~ Spider Robinson
Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.
~ William Paul Young
If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.
~ Jo Walton, Among Others
At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile
~ Loren Eiseley
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
~ Honore de Balzac