Quotes about Mystery

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.

Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

O, we love an unknown lover when we love Christ.

My shallow and ebb thoughts are not the compass Christ saileth by. I leave His ways to Himself, for they are far, far above me . . . There are windings and to's and fro's in His ways, which blind bodies like us cannot see.

If you knew particularly what to do, it were not a spiritual exercise.

I verily judge, we know not how much may be had in this life: there is yet something beyond all we see, that seeking would light upon.