Quotes about Mystery
She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art
— St. Thomas Aquinas
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
— Madeleine L'Engle
God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.
— Martin Luther
God's decisions are always mysterious, but they are always in our favour.
— Paulo Coelho
If you comprehend, it is not God.
— St. Augustine
In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.
— Deepak Chopra
I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.
— Evelyn Underhill
To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.
— Henri Nouwen