Quotes about Mystery
As man did not come wholly out of nature, for man with his mind has a mysterious x which is not contained in his chemical and biological antecedents, so Christ did not come wholly out of humanity.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
— Oscar Wilde
You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.
— Deepak Chopra
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
— George Bernard Shaw
Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.
— John Polkinghorne
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
— Philip Yancey
Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature; a composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the same;
— Marcus Aurelius
Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature's wisdom.
— Marcus Aurelius
It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.
— Margaret Atwood
Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.
— Margaret Atwood
From this distance it does resemble fun. Fun is not knowing how it will end.
— Margaret Atwood