Quotes about Mystery

Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

Life is a mystery to be experienced, not solved.

All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about.

How did it all come about—this miracle of love? She didn't know. It had come upon her unawares... softly.

If the mystery of the cross becomes the inner form of this science, a living energy that allows the soul to be molded by what is received from this mystery, it turns into a science of the cross . On the contrary, excessive interior preoccupation with one's own personal concerns can develop in the course of life into a general indifference to things religious.

Oh, I am—it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.

Her mind was as destitute of beauty and mystery as the prairie school-house in which she had been educated; and her ideals seemed to Ralph as pathetic as the ornaments made of corks and cigar-bands with which her infant hands had been taught to adorn it. He was beginning to understand this, and learning to adapt himself to the narrow compass of her experience.

In this interpretative light Mrs. Grancy acquired the charm which makes some women's faces like a book of which the last page is never turned. There was always something new to read in her eyes.

But these mysteries, and many others, were closely locked in Mr. Jackson's breast; for not only did his keen sense of honour forbid his repeating anything privately imparted, but he was fully aware that his reputation for discretion increased his opportunities of finding out what he wanted to know.