Quotes about Mystery
he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him ..." (1 Corinthians 14:2).
— Chris Oyakhilome
When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.
— Henry David Thoreau
Now comes the mystery.
— Henry Ward Beecher
what he is to the inscrutable God is what matters.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Inspiration is as mysterious as life, for both are God-given. Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.
— Leonard Ravenhill
"All right," said the [Cheshire] Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
— Lewis Carroll
Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.
— DL Moody
Flowers are the hieroglyphics of angels. Loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
— Steven James
People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.
— Eugene Peterson
Insufficient respect for mystery leads to intellectual suicide; insufficient penetration of mystery leads to shallowness and despair.
— Mortimer Adler
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
— Nadine Gordimer