Quotes about Mystery

Blue is light seen through a veil.

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath...

Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

But if I know not even the tail of this whale, how understand his head? much more, how comprehend this face, when face he has none? Thou shalt see my back parts, my tail, he seems to say, but my face shall not be seen. But I cannot completely make out his back parts; and hint what he will about his face, I say again he has no face.

It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I. By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

It's true all the time everywhere or it's not true! And that one truth is always Mystery.

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

The life of the soul is incalculable.

Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering.