Religious Mystery Quotes

#1. The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.

Kevin Hart

#2. For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

Susan Sontag

#3. If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#4. Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

Krista Tippett

#5. We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to in place of the promises of God, and turn away from those things accordingly.

James MacDonald

#6. Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.

Flannery O'Connor

#7. Now I will explain to you the ultimate mystery: your exact and true relationship to Me. You are my body. As your body is to your mind and soul, so, too, are you to My mind and soul. Therefore: Everything I experience, I experience through you.

Neale Donald Walsch

#8. For all their reputation for chattiness and storytelling, the Irish I knew were so skillful with words there was sometimes no need for them at all.

Camille DeAngelis

#9. The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

Karl Shapiro

#10. You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life is ethical, not mystical. The mystery has gone and society is disintegrating as a result.

David Kudler

#11. Poetry resists academic pretension, just as the mystery of religious faith evaporates on contact with dogma.

Patrick White

#12. In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

Anton Chekhov

#13. Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is holiness to the Lord.

Jeremy Taylor

#14. 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

#15. I haven't been with anyone since my break-up with Jackass. Yes, Jackass is his name. Officially.

Adela Knight

#16. I know what happened. I used my inTWINition

Michael Houbrick

#17. In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.

Andrew Sullivan

#18. It's like he's picking up parts of the world and showing them to me, saying, See? It's beautiful.

Cath Crowley

#19. There is no danger of exaggerating. We an never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.

Josemaria Escriva

#20. I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

Richard Rohr

#21. Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

George Herbert

#22. We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.

Joe Biden

#23. Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged

Rumi

#24. Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.

John Adams

#25. A single course of studies for all progressive schools is out of the question; it would mean abandoning the fundamental principle of connection with life-experiences.

John Dewey

#26. It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed ...

Oswald Chambers

#27. Everything's mine, Francis," she replied in a merry tone. "The only question is whether or not it knows it is yet.

Jim Butcher

#28. The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#29. The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

Bede Jarrett

#30. Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.

John Leguizamo

#31. The onslaught of scruples is a problem well attested in the spiritual life, especially among the young, where religious observances must be done perfectly to achieve a certain result.

Philip Zaleski

#32. Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways, making impossible the denial of its presence.

Luke Timothy Johnson

#33. Isabella: "Why are you being so mean to me?"
Harry: "Because i love you"
Isabella: "Does that ever work?"
Harry: "On my mother it does."
Isabella: "I'm not your mother."
Harry: "I know that already, because I'm enjoying your company.

Claire LaZebnik

#34. Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#35. Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.

Krista Tippett