Quotes About Mystery

People of the Monolith and

Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?

Above the smoke and stir of this dim spotWhich men call earth.

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true sourceOf human offspring.

The palpable obscure.

The Oracles are dumb.

What if earthBe but the shadow of heaven, and things thereinEach to other like, more than on earth is thought?

The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

What truly is logic? Who decides reason? [...] It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found.

It is better to have been, then not to have been, then to have been nothing at all." What truly is logic? Who decides reason? "It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found."-JOHN NASH JR.

They had experienced a variety of God's providential actions, but they did not yet understand God's ultimate goals.

So at the end of this day, we give thanks For being betrothed to the unknown.

It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here. Rilke said, 'Being here is so much,' and it is uncanny how social reality can deaden and numb us so that the mystical wonder of our lives goes totally unnoticed. We are here. We are wildly and dangerously free.

When composing a story, withhold the essential information—do not mention whatever it is that causes the characters to act as they do.

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

Deep, unmediated, and inexpressible experiences do occur.12 All the traditions agree that in moments of grace, moments perhaps almost unnoticed, a person may move apart from all mediated meanings. No language. No culture. No words. No images. For those moments, one abides in simple and pure consciousness, sharply aware of the mystery surrounding us all.

Two figures joined the witch, a skull head and a pumpkin head.

I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know.

I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

Paul makes the point most clearly that marriage is designed to be the display of God. In Ephesians 5:31–32 he quotes Genesis 2:24 and then tells us the mystery that it has always contained: "'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.' This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

God's glory consists much in the fact that He is happy beyond all our imagination.

Nadie comprenderá la necesidad de la conversión si ni siquiera sabe por qué nos creo Dios. Nos creó a su imagen para que pudiéramos reflejar su gloria en el mundo. Fuimos creados para ser prismas que reflejen la luz de la gloria de Dios en todos los aspectos de la vida. Es un gran misterio por qué quiso Dios compartir con nosotros el resplandor de su gloria.