Quotes about Mystery

Holy ground is dangerous ground.

Gabriel Marcel wrote that life is not so much a problem to be solved as a mystery to be explored.

Theologian Karl Rahner was once asked if he believed in miracles. His reply? 'I live on miracles—I couldn't make it through a day without them.' Still another name for it is mystery.

In a world where nearly everything can be weighed, explained, quantified, subjected to psychological analysis and scientific control, I persist in making the center of my life a God whom no eye hath seen, nor ear heard, whose will no one can probe.

It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It's the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can't be packaged, and it can't be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the chanting of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

When shadows take flight and the moon turns away from the stars, the raven delivers divine law

I don't know how, but I know Who.

Only the dear Lord knows what may befall us, just around the bend.

God works in mysterious ways at times, so we will trust Him for the outcome. And always remember, His mercy holds us up when we reach the end of our own strength.

God has hidden mighty and mysterious things for us, not from us.

The walk of faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.