Quotes about Mystery

But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable.

O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.

Who knows that about anybody?

he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.

To Mr. Casaubon now, it was as if he suddenly found himself on the dark river-brink and heard the plash of the oncoming oar, not discerning the forms, but expecting the summons.

It's the will o' Them above as a many things should be dark to us; but there's some things as I've never felt i' the dark about, and they're mostly what comes i' the day's work. You were hard done by that once, Master Marner, and it seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master Marner, for all it's dark to you and me.

Marner took her into his lap, trembling with an emotion mysterious to himself, at something unknown dawning on his life. Thought and feeling were so confused with him, that if he had tried to give them utterance, he could only have said that the child was come instead of the gold--that the gold had turned into the child.

If God is completely beyond our knowing, how can we know that he is unknowable?

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.

Sing, my tongue, the Savior's glory,Of His Flesh the mystery sing;Of the Blood, all price exceeding,Shed by our immortal King.

There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.