Quotes about Mystery

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.

Sex has been domesticated, stripped of the promised mystery, added to the category of the merely expected. It's just what is done, mundane as hockey. It's celibacy these days that would raise eyebrows.

Who can fathom the secrets of the human soul?" I said. "None of us is exempt from sin.

Between the living and the dead. They carried the Word made air.

Nothing. Just that sound, like the sound of starlight scratching its way through outer space: kkkkkkk.

All that I see teaches me to thank the Creator for all I cannot see.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."