Quotes About Mystery

The Alexandria Quartet

like the free-blowing wind and the matchless sun, love couldn't be adequately defined or explained!

There is, plainly, no deep logic to the unfolding of time.

No one will ever know why Dr. Frisch chose such a rag from his precious, renowned collection. Perhaps only to use it for his last match, with death.

They were staring at the gleaming guadrangle as though awaiting an oracle's reply.

Beyond the gods, beyond all that falsifies and coarsens the world of holiness, beyond all lies and distortion, all twisted divinities and all the abortions of human imagination, there must be something stupendous which is inaccessible to us. Which, by our very failure to capture it, demonstrates how inaccessible it is. Beyond all the sacred clutter the holy thing must exist. That I believe, of that I am certain.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

Magic is natural, for nature itself is magic.

Death is the midwife of very great things.... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thousand times improved. This is the highest mystery of God.

The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.

We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs.

The God whom I know dwells quietly in the root system of the very nature of things.

heart's darkness or its light, the closer we get to the ultimate mystery of God. But our culture wants to turn mysteries into puzzles to be explained or problems to be solved, because maintaining the illusion that we can "straighten things out" makes us feel powerful. Yet mysteries never yield to solutions or fixes-and when we pretend that they do, life becomes not only more banal but also more hopeless, because the fixes never work.

Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.

theirs more than meets the eye when it comes to space, the final front tear.

The sea is not a surface. It is, from top to bottom, an abyss. "If you want to cross the sea, sink.

Il n'y avait que dans ses compositions qu'on découvrait la complexité et la délicatesse du monde qui était caché sous ce visage et derrière les gestes rares et rigides.

si nous extrayions le morceau de vie qui piaffe au fond de chaque être vivant, nous sommes des fantômes en comparaison de ce morceau de vie. Nous sommes des ombres qui se frottent et se rencognent dans l'ombre de nos demeures et sous les draps qui couvrent nos lits, face à cette lumière qui transmigre de vivants en vivants.

We're looking for places that aren't on a map. If we put them on one, then anybody could find them.

the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.

Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.

Is someone going about the High Kirk killing folk? That'll do the pilgrim trade no good.

I don't like the way you keep turning up corpses – female corpses, at that – on St Mungo's land, Gil. We'll ha no more of them, if you don't mind.

You are afraid of us. You are afraid because you don't know what we might do.