Quotes About Mystery

Biblical literacy does not dispel all confusion and mystery from your life because while God reveals his will for you in the Bible, he does not reveal all the things he will do in your life for your good and his glory. God surprises you.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. G. K. CHESTERTON

Peace is found in trusting the person who controls all the things that you don't understand and who knows no mystery because he has planned it all.

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

Is that a knife in his hand or an ice cream cone? You'll never know until you taste it.

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.

Sir John, once he

strangely at his companions as the full

To you this is a great mystery, but for me death holds no mystery: just three corpses, the ka of which are already travelling into the Far West. I am simply here to ease their way, like a midwife at birth

I array the moonlit ceiling with a mosaic of question-marks; How was it I was so lucky to have ever met you?

And therein lies my problem – how to hold together all the words about God that I have learned as a good Christian and then as a professional theologian with my growing awareness, especially over the last three decades of my life, of God as Mystery. Come to think of it, this problem of "words" may not only be bubbling under the other problems I've dealt with in the preceding two chapters: it may be one of the major causes of those problems.

words must respect the Mystery and never idolatrously take its place.

If Mystery is the goal and content of all religious experience, then Silence is a necessary means of letting Mystery speak.

God is and has been for me, rather, the Mystery of InterBeing that surrounds me and animates me. But it is a Mystery that is also personally present to me. When I say "personally present," I mean that I have sensed that this Mystery touches me and affects me in ways that I can, and must, describe as personal.

But if salvation is a matter of revealing or embodying the deepest and already existing truth about ourselves and the world – in Christian vocabulary, that we are already children of the Divine called to wake up to and live our oneness with the Spirit – then it is indeed possible that there be other teachers and revealers who have seen and taught other aspects of the Mystery of who we are.

Life is Magic....whether we realize it or not

Number 18, Rue Dennequin.

Where do we come from?" "What are we?""Where are we going?

Children are born pantheists. They see reality unshaped by culture or language. The whole world seems divine to them, full of mystery and power.

I have a message for your daughter," said Cale. "I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool wind plays with her hair, it may be my shadow passing by." And with this terrible threat he faced forward and the procession started once more. In less than a minute they were gone. In her shady room Arbell Swan-Neck stood white and cold as alabaster.

Well, it didn't feel very good to have half of our mystery spoiled for us. We found out that Barry and Eagle Eye had made it up between them that Eagle Eye was to put on a wig and do what he had done, just to give us an adventure in that Indian cemetery.

What is the mass of a feeling? What is its wavelength, its position on the electromagnetic spectrum?

Holmes, held fast by a multitude of hooks and chains, being carved up by a member of the Order of the Gash (or, as Mary termed them, Cenobites). A creature with thick, pulsating tentacles feeding into its back, wearing a long-coat and hat, giving the superficial appearance of a gentleman. Watching

I have seen worse things than ghosts, and if one were to appear to me, I should have so many questions to ask of it that it would have no time to groan and moan and shake its chains.