Quotes about Mystery
But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why there would be no end of divine things!
— Hippocrates
Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when he prospers them and makes them rich, but they think God loves them not when he afflicts them. That is a mystery, but grace instructs men in that mystery, grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God's face, and so come to receive contentment.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.
— Martin Luther
Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.
— Thomas Paine
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
— Victor Hugo
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.
— Coco Chanel
Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
— George Bernard Shaw
God is best known in not knowing him.
— St. Augustine
What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
— Cormac McCarthy