Quotes About Mystery

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.

We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.

Conspiracy theories are good to look at and you can find yourself Googling things until 3 A.M.!

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.

I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator.

They say miracles are past.

I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.

To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness.

I live on having a challenge when the line is really thin. I like it the most when you have no clue what is going to happen.

I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.

As long as you can throw people a curveball, that's what you're looking for. Because the minute they can define you, the minute they think they know exactly who you are, is when it starts to wear thin.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

The best things happen in the dark.