Quotes About Mystery

There's always another secret

Legends say that one of your ancestors —one of only two others to have this Talent—broke time and space together, forming a little bubble where nothing aged.

There is always another secret.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.

I don't trust a theologian who dismisses the beauty of science or a scientist who doesn't believe in the power of mystery.

Neither one of us could really articulate how we felt until I heard Lamott referencing Paul Tillich and telling the audience, "The opposite of faith is not doubt—it's certainty." Steve and I didn't leave religion because we stopped believing in God. Religion left us when it started putting politics and certainty before love and mystery.

I love this from theologians Richard Rohr " My scientist friends have come up with things like ' principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypothesis and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite

I don't believe faith and reason are natural enemies. I believe our human desire for certainty and our often-desperate need to "be right" have led to this false dichotomy. I don't trust a theologian who dismisses the beauty of science or a scientist who doesn't believe in the power of mystery.

When religious leaders leverage our fear and need for more certainty by extracting vulnerability from spirituality and turning faith into "compliance and consequences," rather than traching and modeling how to wrestle with the unknown and how to embrace mystery, the entire concept of faith is bankrupt on its own terms.

Steve and I didn't leave religion because we stopped believing in God. Religion left us when it started putting politics and certainty before love and mystery.

I love this from theologian Richard Rohr: "My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.

Perhaps Jung's most compelling contribution is the idea of individuation, that is, the lifelong project of becoming more nearly the whole person we were meant to be—what the gods intended, not the parents, or the tribe, or, especially, the easily intimidated or the inflated ego. While revering the mystery of others, our individuation summons each of us to stand in the presence of our own mystery, and become more fully responsible for who we are in this journey we call our life.

you know how things always sound better when they're far away and you don't know the details?

The opposite of faith is not doubt--it's certainty. Paul Tillich. I didn't leave religion because we stopped believing in God. Religion left us when it started putting politics and certainty before love and mystery.

Extraterrestrial origin

this is Jewel, Indiana. Nothing ever happens here." Not strictly true, since I had almost been killed here just last month,

Fuil an thiarna, foaru. Finné anois tabhair ar fad saol rioga. Tastail ionachta go deo.

How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.

All gifts are riddles, all lives/are in the middle of mother-lives.

What a man most enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words