Quotes about Mystery
I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
— George Eliot
I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
— George Eliot
There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.
— Jacques Maritain
Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.
— John Calvin
God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind.
— Margaret Atwood
It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.
— Nicky Gumbel
It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.
— Stephen Hawking
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.
— Henri Nouwen
In the end, we know God as unknown.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.
— Brennan Manning
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.
— DA Carson