Mystery and God Quotes
Top 10 Best Mystery Quotes:
"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter."
- James Earl Jones
"Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek."
- Alexander Eliot
"We are all pencils in the hand of God."
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta
"Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process."
- Anne Wilson Schaef
"Jesus replied, 'Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being reborn again.'"
- John 3:3
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
- Albert Einstein
"Whatever you ask for in prayer,
believe that you have received it,
and it will be yours."
- Mark 11:24
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."
- Matthew 7:7-9
"Imagine what it is like for a child to grow up in fear. Pray for children who do."
- T.G. Wilhelm
"What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day."
- Grandma Moses
More Mystery Quotes:
"In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God."
- John 1:1
"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."
- Diane Ackerman
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What no one ever saw or heard, what no one ever thought could happen, is the very thing God prepared for those who love God."
- 1 Corinthians 2:9
"For you must know, the kingdom of God is within you."
- Luke 17:21
"If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God."
- St. Augustine
"Father, son, and Holy Spirit mean that the mystery beyond us, the mystery among us, and the mystery within us are all the same mystery."
- Frederick Buechner
"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."
- Neil Armstrong
"God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must accept. The only choice is how."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"I was moved, for the most part without any inkling of it, closer and closer to a feeling for that mystery out of which the church arose in the first place until, finally, the mystery itself came to have a face for me, and the face it came to have for me was the face of Christ."
- Frederick Buechner
"The parts of the Christian story that had drawn me into the Church were not the believing parts but the beholding parts. While I understood both why and how the early church had decided to wrap those mysteries in protective layers of orthodox belief, the beliefs never seized my heart the way the mysteries did."
- Barbara Brown Taylor
"The unthinking embrace of irrationality is literally madness. But embracing rationality while denying the existence of any mystery to life and its meaning -- that is no less a form of madness than is eager devotion to unreason."
- Dean Koontz
"Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be full."
- John 16:24
"The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything."
- Julia of Norwich
"Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek."
- Alexander Eliot
"In the faces of men and women I see God."
- Walt Whitman
"Do not store up riches for yourselves here on earth. Instead, store up riches for yourselves in heaven, for your heart will always be where your riches are."
- Matthew 6:19-21
"Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God's thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him."
- St. Augustine
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