Quotes about Mystery

I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

The dark world seemed to lie stricken beneath the cold moon and the lidless stars.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness and the more excited I become about Bible doctrine. Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God, rigorous and earnest effort to understand him is richly rewarded with deeper appreciation of who he is, more confidence in his reality and care, and a more intelligent and profound worship of his person.

For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.

A comprehended god is no god.

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

God's name is not known; it is wondered at.

Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.

God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.