Quotes about Mystery
What if earth be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein each to other like, more than on earth is thought?
— John Milton
They had experienced a variety of God's providential actions, but they did not yet understand God's ultimate goals.
— John Newton
God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
— John Ortberg
Paul makes the point most clearly that marriage is designed to be the display of God. In Ephesians 5:31—32 he quotes Genesis 2:24 and then tells us the mystery that it has always contained: "'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.' This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
— John Piper
God's glory consists much in the fact that He is happy beyond all our imagination.
— John Piper
In every situation, God is always doing a thousand different things you cannot see and you do not know.
— John Piper
Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.
— Ellen White
It is impossible for finite minds to comprehend the work of redemption. Its mystery exceeds human knowledge; yet he who passes from death to life realizes that it is a divine reality. The beginning of redemption we may know here through a personal experience. Its results reach through the eternal ages.
— Ellen White
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever." Deuteronomy 29:29. Just how God accomplished the work of creation he has never revealed to men; human science cannot search out the secrets of the Most High. His creative power is as incomprehensible as his existence.
— Ellen White
The mysterious providence which permits the righteous to suffer persecution at the hand of the wicked, has been a cause of great perplexity to many who are weak in faith.
— Ellen White
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
— Ellen Glasgow
There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.
— Barbara Brown Taylor