Quotes about Mystery

Even Hubble hasn't found yet the end of this universe, and we don't know that it has any end.

There's only things, Blackie.

That was another mystery: it sometimes seemed to him that venial sins—impatience, an unimportant lie, pride, a neglected opportunity—cut you off from grace more completely than the worst sins of all.

words like 'mystery' and 'soul' and 'the source of life' came in over and over again, as they sat on the bed talking, with nothing to do and nothing to believe and nowhere better to go.

Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the blank unexplored continent the shape of the human heart.

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

Fate, Chance, God's Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate.

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me.

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.