Quotes about Mystery

mystery isn't something that you cannot understand -- it is something that you can endlessly understand!

Falling upward is a "secret" of the soul, known not by thinking about it or proving it but only by risking it—at least once.

God has to work on the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening and what Mystery-Transformation-God-Grace will eventually ask of us we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process. No one oversees his or her own demise willingly even when it is the false self that is dying.

We are not just humans having a God experience. The Eucharist tells us that, in some mysterious way, we are God having a human experience!

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.

We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.

The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.

Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.