Quotes about Mystery

There was a little hill behind the house. You climbed it, and there was the whole sky from horizon to horizon. A hundred and eighty degrees of brute inexplicable mystery. It was a good place for just sitting and saying nothing.

Love is the plummet as well as the astrolabe of God's mysteries, and the pure in heart can see far down into the depths of the divine justice, to catch a glimpse, not indeed of the details of the cosmic process, but at least of its principle and nature. These insights permit them to say [...] that all shall be well, that, in spite of time, all is well, and that the problem of evil has its solution in the eternity, which men can, if they so desire, experience, but can never describe.

Nature is as incomprehensibly appalling as it is lovely and bountiful.

The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps his shoes were too tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.

Say! In the dark? Here in the dark! Would you, could you, in the dark?

Some are sad. And some are glad. And some are very, very bad. Why are they Sad and glad and bad? I do not know. Go ask your dad.

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.