Quotes about Mystery
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. It can be received gladly or grudgingly, in big gulps or in tiny tastes.
— Anne Lamott
God's joy moves from unmarked box to unmarked box, from cell to cell. As rainwater, down into flowerbed. As roses, up from ground. Now it looks like a plate of rice and fish, now a cliff covered with vines, now a horse being saddled. It hides within these, till one day it cracks them open.
— Anne Lamott
The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.
— Stephen Jay Gould
His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
— Victor Hugo
The world is whole beyond human knowing.
— Wendell Berry
Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.
— John Guare
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.
— Lily Tomlin
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, / Nor have entered into the heart of man / The things which God has prepared for those who love Him" (1 Cor. 2:9).
— John Hagee
A Man's life of any worth is a continual allegory—and very few eyes can see the Mystery of his life—a life like the scriptures, figurative…. Lord Byron cuts a figure, but he is not figurative—Shakespeare led a life of Allegory: his works are the comments on it.
— John Keats
Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one;Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degreesHer rich attire creeps rustling to her knees.
— John Keats
Our part is to get to know God, as a Father and a friend. But to understand Him? His ways are far past our understanding. Infinitely far.
— Elizabeth Musser
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
— Arthur Conan Doyle