Quotes About Mystery

His son had joined the sleepers.

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.

You can't always understand something just because you did it.

False worship, such as John portrays in the worship of the beast, is false precisely because its object is not the transcendent mystery, but only the mystification of something finite.

Dying is easy. Anyone can do it. Living is the problem – Lazarus has been brought back to life and he can't explain himself.

8"Forp My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. 9"Forq as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

There will be times when you do not comprehend why He allows certain things to occur, and that is to be expected.

I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I'm yours ghosts and all.

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

Where'er she lie,Locked up from mortal eye,In shady leaves of destiny.

The more I think about things, the more I see no rhyme or reason in life. no one knows why some things work out and some things don't. Why some of us are lucky and some of us get...

It is what man does not know of GodComposes the visible poem of the world.

Just as the long night of the Arctic ends, the brilliant sunshine of Truth shall come again... and those who are of darkness shall fall in its Light... FOR I HAVE SEEN THAT LAND BEYOND THE POLE, THAT CENTER OF THE GREAT UNKNOWN.

Westwards along the basement, I let myself through a heavy door just beyond the dead giraffes. There was a notice on the wall that read "Departmental cock"--I never did find out what that meant.

There has been a revolution in our understanding over the last forty years, and the gains in knowledge are permanent. But we will never know everything, and that is as it should be. From the obscuring mist of the past, science has ensured that some of the mountains have emerged into clear view, but as soon as that happens the misty shadows of further peaks are glimpsed in the distance, rank upon rank: so many other heights to climb, so many mysteries to investigate.

People seemed uniquely printed to believe in plots and conspiracies, miracles and demons.

Evelyn Waugh proposed that the conclusion of the book affirms the mystery that 'no one knows the secrets of the human heart or the nature of God's mercy'.

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

There is something in the clear blue warm sea of the tropics, which gives to the stranger a feeling of unreality.

All things came from Me and all things will return to Me. Split the timber and there I Am. Lift a stone and you will discover Me there.

Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.

And he pictured her down below, turning slowly in the currents, her skin pale blue in the cold rays of sunlight slanting down through the water, her hair flowing lazily around her face.

window. All the ruckus, of course, woke up everyone in the house. Lilly's room was right up there. She