Quotes About Mystery

An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.

The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.

The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.

To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

God stands revealed or remains forever unknown.

I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.

God hides Himself behind causes.

People might say, What's so great about the Arctic Monkeys? I've never even seen them. Well, you've never seen God either. You're gonna tell me he's not awesome?

God is God. His name doesn't matter.

God' is always the equivalent of 'I do not know.

This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

We walk upon the grace of god. Nothing else exists except that.

I know God exits, but I don't know where.

The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?