Quotes About Mystery

To say "beyond the mountain," and to mean it, to mean, simply, beyond everything for which the mountain stands, of which it signifies the being. Somewhere, if only she could see it, there was neither nothing nor anything. And there, just there, that was the last reality.

It is in human nature to pray. It is appropriate that we lay our words upon the earth. And so: Great Mystery, you who dwell in the endless beyond, you who spoke the first word and made of your breath the mountains and the waters, the trees and the grasses, the man and the woman and the child, hear me in my small voice. I am your thankful creature.

There are things in nature which engender an awful quiet in the heart of man; Devils Tower is one of them. Man must account for it. He must never fail to explain such a thing to himself, or else he is estranged forever from the universe.

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

I feel about John ['s gospel] like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her. (Following Jesus, p. 27.)

La belleza apunta hacia afuera del mundo presente, a uno totalmente diferente.

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.

The New Testament says the Word became flesh. Sacramental theology is all about discovering, in fear and trembling, how to allow that Word to go on becoming flesh.

Whatever else the ancient Israelites believed about their God, he was not a tame God.

The mystery of Jesus Christ, for Paul, is that in him is revealed not only the glory of the one creator God but the true glory of humankind, lost at the fall.

The ultimate future hope remains a surprise, partly because at present we only have images and metaphors for it, leaving us to guess that the reality will be far greater, and more surprising, still.

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We must remind ourselves yet once more that all Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

There is a great mystery here, and all our speaking about God's eventual future must make room for it. This is not at all to cast doubt on the reality of final judgment for those who have resolutely worshipped and served the idols that dehumanize us and deface God's world. It is to say that God is always the God of surprises.

Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.

Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answers but because our questions don't make sense. As C.S. Lewis once pointed out, many of our questions are, from God's point of view, rather like someone asking, "Is yellow square or round?" or "How many hours are there is a mile?

Her mind is a haunted house.

God is just a name for our wonder.

Death is really the mystery of life, isn't it?

Pero las cuestiones humanas no conducían a conclusiones tajantes, al trazado de una línea ni a una suma total. Parecían resolverse, disolverse, cuando sólo se estaban formando de nuevo, reuniéndose en otra combinación. Incluso cuando estamos muertos, lo que hicimos continúa tramando estas nuevas combinaciones.

Hattatin biri üç ayri tarzda yazi yazarmis: Birincisini kendisi okuyabilirmis ama baskalari okuyamazmis, ikincisini hem kendisi hem de baskalari okuyabilirmis, üçüncüsünu ne kendisi okuyabilirmis ne de baÅŸkalar?. O üçüncü hat, benim.

Elle se demande par quel jeu secret du destin son sort est tombé entre les mains des criminels.

No one has ever been able to pinpoint the trigger." "But?" "But it is legend that ambrosia only rises when-" She held her breath. "- an archangel loves true.

But it was the dark hunger in his tone that got to her. Damn kinky vampire had actually liked the knife. Shit .