Quotes About Mystery

The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.

Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?

Don't you know that it is the same for locksmiths with spirits as with love? Spirits laugh at them.

She looked again at Julia's handsome, fragile figure and thought, What is it about Julia? Why is she always so alone?

and claws of creeping foxes.

The idea made me shiver, rather; for it was queer to think of being loved, not just for my own sake, but for someone's I never knew...

We were thinking of secrets. Real secrets, and snide. Too many to count. When I try now to sort out who knew what and who knew nothing, who knew everything and who was a fraud, I have to stop and give it up, it makes my head spin.

Some time in the night I woke, and the barn was full of cows: they stood in a circle and looked us over, and one of them coughed like a man. Don't tell me that's natural.

seen something in their poses, for, 'Spoony!

It's a curious, wanting thing.

We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

Along with taxes and death, the only certainty in life is that we just don't know. So we might as well join this inevitability.

Sometimes My blessings come to you in mysterious ways: through pain and trouble. At such times you can know My goodness only through your trust in Me. Understanding will fail you, but trust will keep you close to Me.

YOU MUST LEAVE ROOM in your worldview for mystery—accepting the limitations of your understanding and knowledge. I will never be predictable or controllable, but I am trustworthy. When adversity strikes you or your loved ones, remember the words of Job: The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts." —ISAIAH 55:8–9 NKJV

MY JUDGMENTS ARE UNSEARCHABLE, and My paths are beyond tracing out! This

My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. —COLOSSIANS 2:2–3

To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. COLOSSIANS 1 : 27

Rejoice in what I am doing in your life, even though it is beyond your understanding.

Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.

Sometimes it's not good for people to find out who you really are.

You'll methodically do everything you can to find me, then tick that off your list: a job well done. But will you ever even want to know why I went missing?

Maybe you'll be pleased, or relieved, or — how dreadful that I don't know what you'll be. That's the problem, right there in a nutshell.

I just couldn't understand how you could go from being alive, from having molecules and blood cells constantly shifting around inside you, and thought processes and a mind full of memories and dreams and love and hate, and in just one tiny second these miraculous things stop and you're dead. How could all that disappear? What happened to your soul, your essence, your wonder? Just because a muscle stops beating? It made absolutely no sense.