Quotes about Mystery

Life is strange, and often imponderable!

God not only moves in mysterious ways, He moves in mundane days.

I don't know why people have to die, Son. I don't think death was what God wanted. But it sure was part of somebody's plan. I believe God is big enough and powerful enough to use it. There's more going on here than we can see.

What if he is the one who brought her to me?

None of them knew the downright pleasure of enchantment, of not suspecting but knowing the things behind things.

What occurs between the lover and the beloved is the entire fullness of the Godhead. .. the God is born in solitude, from the secret mystery of the individual. The separation between life and love is the contradiction between solitude and togetherness.

In Genesis God is multiplying the mystery of the Trinity in his image bearers by creating another individual who stands on level ground with the man and is completely different from, yet one with him. The oxygen hasn't grown thin after all. God is still vision casting--this time for male/female relationships.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." (Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.