Quotes about Mystery

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.

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature; a composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the same;

Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature's wisdom.

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

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.

From this distance it does resemble fun. Fun is not knowing how it will end.

Women, and what went on under their collars. Hotness and coldness, coming and going in the strange musky flowery variable-weather country inside their clothes -- mysterious, important, uncontrollable. That was his father's take on things. But men's body temperatures were never dealt with; they were never even mentioned....

I think that this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside.

The living bird is not its labeled bones.

the gods often mumble

Now it's full night, clear, moonless and filled with stars, which are not eternal as was once thought, which are not where we think they are. If they were sounds, they would be echoes, of something that happened millions of years ago: a word made of numbers. Echoes of light, shining out of the midst of nothing. It's old light, and there's not much of it. But it's enough to see by.