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Quotes About Mystery

Proof of Your existence? There is nothing but.
~ Franz Wright
You gave me in secret one thing to perceive, the tall blue starry strangeness of being here at all.
~ Franz Wright
The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
~ Fred Alan Wolfe
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
~ Fred Allen
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
~ Fred Hoyle
There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
~ Fred Hoyle
Damn queer," he announced. "But lots of things damn queer. Damn queer that Moon looks just same size as Sun. Damn queer that I'm here, isn't it so?
~ Fred Hoyle
I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.
~ Fred Melamed
I realize that it isn't very fashionable to talk about some things being holy; nevertheless, if we ever want to rid ourselves of personal and corporate emptiness, brokenness, loneliness, and fear, we have to allow ourselves room for that which we can not see, hear, touch , or control.
~ Fred Rogers
it is my belief that most of any vampire's really essential nourishment comes from some mysteriously penetrating emanation of the Sun.
~ Fred Saberhagen
ysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.
~ Fred Saberhagen
seen him before. Not
~ Fred Vargas
Adamsberg, badi bene, non attacca, ma ti trasforma, ti accerchia, ti prende alle spalle, ti neutralizza e alla fine ti disarma. Non può essere né braccato né preso. Neanche da lei, Regina Mathilde.
~ Fred Vargas
L'afturganga non convoca mai invano. E il suo dono porta sempre su un sentiero
~ Fred Vargas
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
~ Frederick Buechner
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
~ Frederick Buechner
Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
~ Frederick Buechner
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
~ Frederick Buechner
Generally and understandably we think that if our ministries increase, Jesus' ministry will increase as well. John the Baptist knows better. He apparently believes that it is possible to be so consumed with Christ's increase that one can actually be content to be less significant oneself. This is the mystery of authentic ministry. Who of us can say we have attained this poised self-diminution? It is a goal greatly to be desired.
~ Frederick Dale Bruner
In the cavity were two handguns with ammunition clips.
~ Frederick Forsyth
Frederick Forsyth
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The natives who saw him walking alone, and later brought him back to the town for burial, said he was whistling when he went. Being simple peasants, growers of yams and cassava, they did not know what the whistling was. It was a tune called "Spanish Harlem.
~ Frederick Forsyth
It is a nothingness unattainable by the intellect.
~ Frederick Franck
It takes place on a dimension higher than that of science (or scientism) or common sense.
~ Frederick Franck