Quotes About Mystery

God: personified incomprehensibility.

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

God comes to see without a bell.

A voice is in the wind I do not know A meaning on the face of the high hills Whose utterance I cannot comprehend. A something is behind them: that is God.

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

Our spaceship is a tiny bubble in a glass of God.

To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.

It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.

God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity.

Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.

You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?

Faith does not always demand that God explains Himself.

God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.

What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.

The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him - or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.