Quotes about Mystery
I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell
— Walt Whitman
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
— Walt Whitman
Are you the new person drawn toward me?
— Walt Whitman
Whoever you are holding me now in hand, Without one thing all will be useless, I give you fair warning before you attempt me further, I am not what you supposed, but far different. -from Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
— Walt Whitman
I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.
— Wendell Berry
Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.
— Wendell Berry
A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.' The husband, unlike the manager or the would-be objective scientist, belongs inherently to the complexity and the mystery that is to be husbanded, and so the husbanding mind is both careful and humble.
— Wendell Berry
Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed...
— Wendell Berry
We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
— Wendell Berry
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
— Charles Martin
Something only God can do. He both broke and filled my heart at the same time. I still don't understand that.
— Charles Martin
That which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence."
— Charles Martin