Quotes about Mystery

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.

No man can see God in this life and live because His glory would annihilate our poor, weak human nature.

My father would talk to me about the moon, and to me it was mysterious and poetic, like a large, beautiful, honey-colored pearl.

Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.

Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.

8"Forp My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. 9"Forq as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

There will be times when you do not comprehend why He allows certain things to occur, and that is to be expected.

One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway… We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking… The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.