Quotes about Mystery

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

They turned around, and they saw, there by the great rock— wings, it seemed like hundreds of wings, spreading, folding, stretching— and eyes how many eyes can a drive of dragons have? and small jets of flame

Fewmets to Mr. Jenkins, anyhow.

Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

you don't have to understand things for them to be.

The haunted house was half in the shadows of the clump of elms in which it stood.

It's no mystery, it isn't luck. Success is a result of your obedience to specific principles, rules and laws

Life is hidden in a day and a day is hidden in life.

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching in this with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints and for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth with confidence, to make known the mystery of the gospel . . . as I ought to speak (Ephesians 6:18-20).

People think that what God wills must inevitably take place. This is by no means the case. God wills a great deal of blessing for His people that never comes to them. He wills it most earnestly, but they do not will it, and it cannot come to them. This is the great mystery of man's creation with a free will but also of the renewal of his will in redemption, that God has made the execution of His will dependent on the will of man in many things.

Perseverance in prayer, a perseverance that strengthens the faith of the believer against everything that may seem opposed to the answer, is a real miracle; it is one of the impenetrable mysteries of the life of faith.

A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out.