Quotes About Mystery

You know, you try to hide the fact that you're nice," she said. "I think it's natural for you to be kind." "Nowww," he warned. "You'll ruin my reputation." "You haven't even established one yet," she said. "No one knows quite what to make of you.

Maybe you like figuring out why peoples' lives turn out the way they do. It's always a mystery, isn't it?

Who was this guy? she found herself asking. Looks like Paul Bunyan, runs a bar, has all these guns, and cleans and launders like Martha Stewart.

He had the swarthy good looks and fierce eyes of a pirate or maybe a serial killer.

One of the things that interests me year-round—as a Christian, as a theologian, as a human being—is that star,

There was so much he really didn't understand about women, he thought. They were an eternal mystery. Did they actually like to cry?

She leaned forward, and her boobs nearly fell out of that tight sweater. He could feel his eyes bulge and his hands itch with temptation.

I'm not permitted to explain the rules of the game. Nor to acknowledge whether or not we're playing one.

A weird twist in the fabric of the universe

Because the thing about miracles is that they're not answers, no matter how much we want them to be. If anything, they're even more troubling questions.

How could I have known, back then, that the white house across the park would belong to Cassidy Thorpe? That out of a row of nearly identical McMansions, there'd be one window in particular I searched out every night before bed, looking for secret messages?

I read somewhere that the hair and fingernails on dead bodies don't actually grow, it just looks like they do because the skin contracts as the body dries out. So it's possible to lie even in death, to deceive people from beyond the

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

THE EYES OF THE UNIVERSE' 630–1018

The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.

an axiom of sorcery: If you come to know yourself no one else can know you

While the other world religions emphasized mystery and intuition, Christianity alone embraced reason and logic as the primary guide to religious truth.

De dónde provienen las palabras, que mi mano conoce y yo ignoro?

Necesitaba de la intriga tanto como de los alimentos.

y con sólo algunas hebras como vestigio de la noche.

I kept looking at the door. It seemed about to open, all the time. So much of the ghost story is the anticipation.

The detailed gorgeousness of Orthodoxy was the reversed image of the sparse purity of Islam. One offered the abstract simplicity of the desert horizon, a portable worship that could be performed anywhere as long as you could see the sun, a direct contact with God, the other images, colors, and music, ravishing metaphors of the divine mystery designed to lead the soul to heaven. Both were equally intent on converting the world to their vision of God.

There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know.

Music is a wonderful example of something that's in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.