Quotes about Mystery

Let no one, then, seek to know from me what I know that I do not know; unless he perhaps wishes to learn to be ignorant of that of which all we know is, that it cannot be known.

And I confess to Thee, O Lord, that I yet know not what time is, and again I confess unto Thee, O Lord, that I know that I speak this in time, and that having long spoken of time, that very "long" is not long, but by the pause of time. How then know I this, seeing I know not what time is? or is it perchance that I know not how to express what I know?

For heaven shall be folded up like a scroll; and now is it stretched over us like a skin.

For my own part, indeed, as I dare not say that there ever was a time when the Lord God was not Lord, so I ought not to doubt that man had no existence before time, and was first created in time. But when I consider what God could be the Lord of, if there was not always some creature, I shrink from making any assertion, remembering my own insignificance.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep [spirit] so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.

The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.

Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.

The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.