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Quotes About Mystery

While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a strong light beats into heaven.
~ E.M. Forster, Howard's End
The mystery of grace is the power of God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable.
~ F.T. McKinstry, Crowharrow
I know there are powers I can't discern and things that bend and shape us that we cannot see.
~ Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse
The mystery of seeking God is that HE is the One who finds you.
~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Dream is a window to the other realm
~ okorie deborah
I like to believe magic is all around us, finding its way into everyday life one miracle at a time.
~ D.A. Henneman, Sea of Dreams
For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I am the witch of my mystical world.
~ Usha Cosmico
We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.
~ Andrew Murray
The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.
~ Origen
If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.
~ Steven Weinberg
The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of love, can only be understood in prayer. Pray and weep, kneeling before the Cross.
~ Pope Francis
The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.
~ Lady Jane Grey
Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
~ Julian of Norwich
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
~ Victor Hugo
Even a man who's pure in heart And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright.
~ Curt Siodmak
Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
~ J.I. Packer, Knowing God
True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.
~ Emile M. Cioran
We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.
~ Annie Dillard
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see.
~ Ralph Hodgson
Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer