Quotes about Mystery
Tonight while walking on the waterfront in the angelic streets I suddenly wanted to tell you how wonderful I think you are. Please don't dislike me. What is the mystery of the world? Nobody knows they're angels.
— Jack Kerouac
The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled—Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.
— Jack Kerouac
The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.
— Mother Angelica
Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which often He does not, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man. What this means in practical terms is that many of our questions - especially those that begin with the word 'why' - will have to remain unanswered for the time being.
— James Dobson
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
— John Milton
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
— Anne Lamott
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
— CS Lewis
Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
— CS Lewis
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it
— Ted Dekker
In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.
— Mark Batterson
To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.
— Vincent Van Gogh
A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.
— John Keats