Quotes about Mystery

The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

No creature, not even the most exalted angel, can understand God or have perfect knowledge of Him.

I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.

I don't know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.

There is not only more to each soul's journey than we imagine, usually there is more than we can imagine.

I once heard a preacher say, "The reason we sometimes connect so quickly with a complete stranger is because the friendship is not of this life, but is the resumption of a friendship from another." I do not know if this is true, but sometimes it feels true.

Nichelle staring at Jack.

People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don't know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

Faith in God is the sole answer to the mystery of evil.

Whatever we say about God always rests within the larger reality of what we can't say; meaning always resides within a larger mystery; knowing always takes place within unknowing; whatever has been revealed to us surrounded by that which hasn't been revealed to us.

If there is a divine being who made everything, including us, what would our experiences with this being look like? The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. We are dealing with somebody we made up. And if we made him up, then we are in control. And so in passage after passage, we find God reminding people that he is beyond and bigger and more.