Quotes about Mystery
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
— St. Augustine
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
— St. Augustine
The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
— Edith Stein
In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
— Wayne Dyer
The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
— Deepak Chopra
What I don't think I knew when I was young was that 'losing your faith' is actually part of the plan for a lot of people - that it's actually maybe the most beautiful and graceful thing that can happen. The mystery of God can handle all of it. It can handle all of your thoughts, all of your doubts, all of your folly. It's all in the game.
— Pete Holmes
The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
— Elie Wiesel
To know God's name is to know God.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois. You don't get lost in the woods behind your house. You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall.
— Travis Thrasher