Quotes about Mystery

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.

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.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

To know God's name is to know God.

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.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?

a compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable.