Quotes about Mystery

All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.

True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.

In one sense the doctrine of the trinity is a mystery that we will never understand fully.

Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.

He also went invisible, yet stayed (such privilege hath omnipresence).

Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a World   Of destind habitation; but

And ye that live and move, fair Creatures, tell,   Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?   Not of my self; by some great Maker then,   In goodness and in power praeeminent;   Tell me, how may I know him, how adore,   From whom I have that thus I move and live,   And feel that I am happier then I know.

God wants to be known, but not in a way that overwhelms us, that takes away the possibility of love freely chosen. "God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away," said Meister Eckhart.