Quotes about Mystery
Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son—surely you know!
— Proverbs 30:4
There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:
— Proverbs 30:18
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
— Ecclesiastes 3:11
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
— Ecclesiastes 7:13
What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?
— Ecclesiastes 7:24
Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
— Ecclesiastes 8:7
So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
— Ecclesiastes 9:1
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
— Ecclesiastes 11:5
My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.
— Song of Solomon 4:12
Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
— Song of Solomon 6:7
Come back, come back, O Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may gaze upon you. Why do you look at the Shulammite, as on the dance of Mahanaim?
— Song of Solomon 6:13
This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”
— Isaiah 21:11