Quotes about Mystery

Jesus himself had called and chosen Judas! That is the real mystery, for Jesus knew from the beginning who would betray him.

God is never in the world in any way except in his absolute transcendence of it.

When a preacher opens the Bible and interprets the word of God, a mystery takes place, a miracle: the grace of God, who comes down from heaven into our midst and speaks to us, knocks on our door, asks questions, warns us, puts pressure on us, alarms us, threatens us, and makes us joyful again and free and sure.

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we cannot even be wholly ourselves—in the sense of individuality as a unique divine thought—until we are reborn in Christ.

God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.

All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.

Within a moment there is monumental potential. That is the mystery of a moment. It is small enough to ignore and big enough to change your life forever.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.

There is a Heaven within the souls of the saints-that is a certain truth; no soul shall ever come to Heaven, but the soul which has Heaven come to it first. When you die, you hope you will go to Heaven; but if you will go to Heaven when you die, Heaven will come to you before you die. Now this is a great mystery, to have the Kingdom of Heaven in the soul; no man can know this but that soul which has it.