Quotes about Mystery
Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.
- Timothy Keller
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
- William Barclay
What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.
- Euripides
I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
- George Eliot
I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
- George Eliot
There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.
- Jacques Maritain
Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.
- John Calvin
God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind.
- Margaret Atwood
It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.
- Nicky Gumbel
It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.
- Stephen Hawking
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.
- Henri Nouwen
In the end, we know God as unknown.
- St. Thomas Aquinas