Quotes about Mystery

So when we talk about God we're using language, language that employs a vast array of words and phrases and forms to describe a reality that is fundamentally beyond words and phrases and forms.

An image of God doesn't contain God, in the same way a word about God or a doctrine or a dogma about God isn't God; it only points to God.

God is not a question about what may or may not be up there or above or out there— God is what we're unquestionably in.

Being a Christian then is more about celebrating mystery than conquering it.

When you say "yes" to your life and your path and your work in the world, you are entering into this mystery of creation, a mystery in which everybody starts with a blank page, and "everybody" includes you. Now, let's pause and take a breath. You've been given this gift of life. You were not given his gift or her gift. You were given your gift.

This death-and-life mystery, this mechanism, this process is built into the very fabric of creation. The cells in our bodies are dying at a rate of millions a second, only to be replaced at a similar rate of millions a second. Our skin is constantly flaking off and our body is continually replacing the skin cells with new ones; we have entirely new skin every week or so.

Particles couldn't contain the fullness of Spirit, and that led to something new.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

He said the dead had souls, but when I asked him How that could be - I thought the dead were souls, He broke my trance. Don't that make you suspicious That there's something the dead are keeping back? Yes, there's something the dead are keeping back.

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.