Mystery Quotes - Page 22

• Mans nature indicates that he was created for three things: To think, to worship and to work. But thinking is not enough. Men are made to worship also, to bow down and adore in the presence of the Mystery inexpressible.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Thinking, Three

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• The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.

  Peter Redgrove

  Order, Devalue, Protect

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• The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Eye, Men

  Address in Divinity College, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.

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• The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Discovery, Genius, Germs

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1864). “Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini”

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• Indeed the mystery of Christ runs the risk of being disbelieved precisely because it is so incredibly wonderful

  Cyril of Alexandria

  Running, Risk, Wonderful

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• Mystery is more important than knowledge.

  J. J. Abrams

  Important

  "My mysterious, inspiring J. J. Abrams Mystery Box" by John Baichtal, www.wired.com. July 14, 2009.

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• Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Long, Together, Innocence

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• Within a moment there is monumental potential. That is the mystery of a moment. It is small enough to ignore and big enough to change your life forever

  Erwin McManus

  Forever, Changing Your Life, Moments

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment”, p.17, Thomas Nelson

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• Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.

  Walt Whitman

  Song, Sex, Passion

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Leaves of Grass”, p.87, Bantam Classics

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• Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Home, Air, Views

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• God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world

  Vern Poythress

  Irrational Numbers, Fascination, World

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• Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

  Dennis Covington

  Absence

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• We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.

  Joseph Campbell

  Nature, Animal, Sea

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

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• Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

  Walt Whitman

  Sweet, Horse, Soul

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, III”

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• Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Attention, Politics, Pay

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• If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how my best images appear. That excitement and shock of discovery makes my life at these moments a gift.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Discovery, Lenses

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• For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound. It stings and gapes, and the believer cannot rest till it be healed up, closed up, smeared with the soothing balm of an answer, even if his doctrine be a sophisticated one like Aquinas's or that of the latest Liberal Protestant theologian.

  Robert M. Price

  Doctrine, Answers, Sophisticated

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• The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality.

  Jacques Barzun

  Philosophical, Thinking, Race

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• I think the reason people investigate the paranormal is because we are trying to overcome the mystery of death. That in and of itself is something that lives within every living person, everybody. We all experience death and we are forced to find out if that is just the end, which it is not. So what we do is, when we are experiencing a situation that maybe scary, it's almost now a sense of relief.

  Zak Bagans

  Thinking, People, Scary

  "GHOST ADVENTURES - an interview with Zak Bagans, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin". Interview with Jeri Jacquin, patch.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God. It is one of his mysteries, which it was his delight to conceal and the glory of kings to search out. And men enjoy it to mark their days and celebrate their moments and stand with their brothers in the face of what life brings.

  Stephen Mansfield

  Brother, Kings, Beer

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• As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.

  Rupert Holmes

  Fun, Years, Theatre

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• The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Real, Heart, Light

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• Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Memories, Believe, Autumn

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• If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Errors, Years, Confusion

  "The total library : non-fiction 1922-1986". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1999.

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• It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

  Charles de Lint

  Fun, World, Bits

  "Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection". Book by Charles de Lint, 1993.

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