Quotes About Mystery

Your brightness is my darkness. I know nothing of You and, by myself, I cannot even imagine how to go about knowing You. If I imagine You, I am mistaken. If I understand You, I am deluded. If I am conscious and certain I know You, I am crazy. The darkness is enough.

humble realization of our mysterious being as persons in whom God dwells, with infinite sweetness and inalienable power.

to put words together in a such a way that they exercise a mysterious and vital reactivity among themselves, and so release their secret content of associations to produce in the reader an experience that enriches the depths of his spirit in a manner quite unique.

This "ground," this "world" where I am mysteriously present at once to my own self and to the freedoms of all other men, is not a visible, objective and determined structure with fixed laws and demands. It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself my own unique door.

If you found God with great ease, perhaps it's not God that you have found.

For a Christian is one whom the world does not know.

I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate.

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

You look until you see nothing tangible, and that is God.

The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that, however it finds you, it finds you under very weird circumstances.

Questions arose. Like, what in the fuck was going on here, basically.

What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? --Gravity's Rainbow, V699

There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you should happen upon it, your strongest certainty is not that you have discovered it but returned to it. In a single great episode of light, you remember everything.

She couldn't stop watching his eyes. They were bright black, surrounded by an incredible network of lines, like a laboratory maze for studying intelligence in tears. They seemed to know what she wanted, even if she didn't.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

If the tower is everywhere and the knight of deliverance no proof against its magic,what else?

Our beauty lies in this extended capacity for convolution.

Run away with me," said Roseman when the coffee came. "Where?" she asked. That shut him up.

What? -- RICHARD M NIXON

Well, and keep in mind where those Masonic Mysteries came from in the first place. (Check out Ishmael Reed. He knows more about it than you'll ever find here.)

Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate.

As spread thighs are to the libertine...so was the letter V to young Stencil.

Oh, THE WORLD OVER THERE, it's So hard to explain! Just-like, a dream's-got, lost in yer brain!

failing to look inscrutable to any but the habitually dismissive ...