Mystery Quotes - Page 18

• The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Mash Up, Murder Mysteries, Meditation

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• A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Would Be, Revelations

  "Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God". Book by J. I. Packer, 1961.

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• Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dancing, Partners

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• In my pictures, you never know, that’s the mystery. It’s just a suggestion and you leave it to the audience to put what they want on it. It’s fashion in disguise.

  Deborah Turbeville

  Fashion, Want, Suggestions

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• Every man carries his kingdom within, and no one knows what is taking place in another's kingdom. 'No one understands me!' Of course they don't, each one of us is a mystery. There is only One Who understands you, and that is God. Hand yourself over to Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Hands, Kingdoms

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• By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies, from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe.

  David Deida

  Heart, Sublime, Energy

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• If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Our World, Ready

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.280, Bantam

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• Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Kind

  "Searching for the Life of a Salesman" by Patrick Healy, www.nytimes.com. March 8, 2012.

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• The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

  Robert Carlyle

  People, Actors, Good Things

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence that people are not as smart as dogs think they are.And he wants to see it time and again.In the fog of ambiguities and mysteries,he desperately searches for truths because truth usually shows humanity in a poor light

  Manu Joseph

  Dog, Smart, Men

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• Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it.

  Jane Kirkpatrick

  Writing, Promise, And Love

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• We need to act for the sake of a redemption that will be a mystery until it unfolds before us.

  Rachel Pollack

  Needs, Redemption, Sake

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• Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Religious, Men, Hunting

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.106, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hunting, Animal, Facts

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.106, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.

  John Shelby Spong

  Journey, Religion, Doe

  "Q&A on The Parliament of the World's Religions". Weekly mailing, September 5, 2007.

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• There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray. We know not what we should pray for as we ought, and if prayer waits for understanding it will never begin. We discover by using. We learn by practice. Though a man should have all knowledge about prayer, and though he should understand all mysteries about prayer, unless he prays he will never learn to pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Motivation, Philosophy

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• I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow - you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.

  David Lynch

  Children, Distance, Creativity

  Interview with Kristine McKenna, www.thecityofabsurdity.com. March 08, 1992.

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• Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is the strange knock at the door, the sudden sight of an unceremoniously blooming flower, an afternoon in the yard, a day of riding the midtown bus. Just to see. Just to notice. Just to be there.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Flower, Sight, Doors

  "The Sweet Mystery of Life" by Sister Joan D. Chittister, OSB, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2011.

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• It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Believe, Men

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• The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

  Laozi

  Real, Names, Darkness Within

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• We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt and reject everything else in order to believe firmly in Christ, and after you have begun to believe, your faith itself must be tested and purified. Christianity is not merely a set of forgone conclusions. Faith tends to be defeated by the burning presence of God in mystery, and seeks refuge from him, flying to comfortable social forms and safe convictions in which purification is no longer an inner battle but a matter of outward gesture.

  Thomas Merton

  Faith, Believe, Struggle

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• Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

  Diane Ackerman

  Brain, Trying, Causes

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

  Joshua

  Giving, Rewards, Sake

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• Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

  Roman Jakobson

  Sound, Acoustics, Phonetics

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• The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Fall, Angel

  George Whitefield (2012). “The Lord Our Righteousness”, p.8, Curiosmith

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