A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.
Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.
Running down a dream. . . working on a mystery. . . going wherever it leads.
Jesus speaks in the silence of the mystery of the Eucharist and reminds us each time that following him means going out of ourselves and making our lives not something we 'possess,' but a gift to him and to others.
When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.
There’s no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart
Most mysteries are soluble in time.
And it is utterly true that he who cannot find wonder, mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and an undiscovered realm in the places by the Gray's Inn Road will never find these secrets elsewhere.
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you.
What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it sometimes seemed to him that venial sins--impatience, an unimportant lie, pride, a neglected opportunity--cut you off from grace more completely than the worst sins of all. Then, in his innocence, he had felt no love for anyone; now in his corruption he had learnt.
Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them
Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?
The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries.
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.
The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.
The universe is still a place of mystery and wonder.
At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class. '
By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.