mystery

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: 'Follow thou me!' and setsustothetaskswhich Hehastofulfil forour time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple,He will reveal Himself inthetoils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who He is.

—Schweitzer, Albert

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

—Doyle, SirArthur Conan

Death is the only mystery we all solve.

—Skelton, Robin

Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurledö Anywhere, anywhere, Out of the world!

—Honorius of Autun

  Love all God's creation, thewhole of it and every grainof sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's lights. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.

—Doolittle,James Harold

Se ha hecho para los vivos y no para los muertos el porque¤   metaf|¤sico y las reflexiones sobre la vida y la muerte, pero no les hace falta aclarar todo el misterio, les hace falta distraerse y son‹  ar en aclararlo. Metaphysical questions and reflections on lifeand death were created for people alive and not for the dead. However, they do not have to solve all mystery; it is enough for them to create some distraction and to dream that they clarify.

—Herna¤ n dez, Felisberto

There is no event so commonplace but that God is present in it, alwayshiddenly, alwaysleaving you roomto recognize him or not to recognize him† Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the heavenlyand hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

—Buechner, (Carl) Frederick

I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an O altitudo!

—Browne, SirThomas

Tout est myste'  re dans l'Amour. Everything about love is a mystery.

—La Fontaine,Jean de

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

—Ford, Richard

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—Bible (NewTestament)

The knowledge that you can have is inexhaustible, and what is inexhaustible is benevolent. The knowledge that you cannot have is of the riddles of birth and death, of our future destinyand the purposes of God. Here there is no knowledge, but illusions that restrict freedom and limit hope. Accept the mystery behind knowledge: It is not darkness but shadow.

—Frye, Northrop

Above all things our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it† Its mystery isits life.We must not let indaylight uponmagic.

—Bagehot,Walter

The mystery is why we even collect these figures; if we kept similar statistics for Manhattan Island,Park Avenue could layawake at night worrying about its trade deficit.

—Bartley, Robert Leroy

The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

—White, Patrick Victor Martindale

Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium, Sanguinisque pretiosi, Quem in mundi pretium Fructus ventris generosi Rex effudit gentium. Now, my tongue, the mystery telling Of the glorious Body sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the Gentiles' Lord and King, In aVirgin's womb once dwelling, Shed for this world's ransoming.

—Aquinas, StThomas

   Visionary power Attends the motions of the viewless winds, Embodied in the mystery of words.

—Wordsworth,William

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

—Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Life itself is a mystery which defies solution.

—Mortimer, SirJohn Clifford

   Silence ruled this land.Out of silence mystery comes, and magic, and the delicate awareness of unreasoning things.

—Dark, Eleanor ne¤  e  O'Reilly pseudonym Patricia O'Rane

   Free from desire, you realise the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

—Lao-Tzu   6c

Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.

—Runge, Philipp Otto

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped inside a mystery inside an enigma.But perhaps there is a key; that key is Russian national interest.

—Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

Cette cloison qui nous se¤  pare du myste'  re des choses et que nous appelons la vie. Life is a screen which separates us from the mystery of things.

—Hugo,Victor Marie

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of aneye, atthelasttrump: for thetrumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

—Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

—McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

—Planck, Max Karl Ernst

   I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

—Sandburg, Carl

Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring Even yet thou are to me No bird, but an invisible thing, Avoice, a mystery.

—Wordsworth,William