Quotes about Mystery
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.
— Margaret Atwood
Who can fathom the secrets of the human soul?" I said. "None of us is exempt from sin.
— Margaret Atwood
Between the living and the dead. They carried the Word made air.
— Margaret Atwood
Nothing. Just that sound, like the sound of starlight scratching its way through outer space: kkkkkkk.
— Margaret Atwood
All that I see teaches me to thank the Creator for all I cannot see.
— Henrietta Mears
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
— Oswald Chambers
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."
— William Saroyan
He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
— Anne Lamott
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
— Anne Lamott
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace--only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. I can be received gladly or grudgingly, in big gulps or in tiny tastes, like a deer at the salt.
— Anne Lamott