Quotes about Enigma

I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

You don't need to read a mystery novel; your life is a mystery to you.

I have found that the prompts to adjusting my understanding of God are all around me—literally. The very heavens are shouting them, and the word they are shouting most clearly is "mystery.

I find it strangely comforting that walking the path of Christian faith means being confronted moment by moment with what is counterintuitive and ultimately beyond my comprehension to understand or articulate. In an unexpected way, God becomes more real to me, not less.

“Why do you ask my name,” said the angel of the LORD, “since it is beyond comprehension?”

It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:

It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.

There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:

What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?

Truly You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

Daniel answered the king, “No wise man, enchanter, medium, or magician can explain to the king the mystery of which he inquires.