Quotes about Mystery
Swedenborg, the Christian mystic, and the sentiment of charity as divine spoke deeply to him. He felt swept up in something far bigger than himself.
— Alice Hoffman
He recognized her immediately when he saw her again. And what he recognized was her energy, which seemed to precede her. As if her spirit were thrusting itself forward, into the unknown; dazzled, charmed, challenged, hopeful, happy to be energized by the mysterious, loving the adrenaline rush of surprise.
— Alice Walker
There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.
— Alice Walker
God's ways are not our ways. He's working when we can't see it. Sometimes it's taking longer because He has something better in store. One of the best things I've learned is to trust God's timing and trust His ways.
— Joel Osteen
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
— Victor Hugo
Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.
— Max Lucado
The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
— Dallas Willard
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
— Joseph Addison
The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances.
— Paulo Coelho
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
— Edmund Burke
Who's that behind those Foster Grants?
— Anonymous