#myst

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#i #individual #mystic #people

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery. ↗

— William Gurnall

#faith #godliness #mystery #our #well

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#mysterious #poetry #relationship #slightly #wonder

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible. ↗

— Stonewall Jackson

#enemy #mislead #mystify #possible #surprise

Time exists so that you can experience these flavors as deeply as possible. On the path of devotion, if you can experience even a glimmer of love, its possible to experience a little more love. When you experience that a little more, then the next degree of intensity is possible. Thus, love engenders love until you reach the point of saturation, when you totally merge with the divine love. this is what the mystics mean when they say that they plunge into the ocean of love to drown themselves. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#mystics #spirituality #experience

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets. ↗

— Al McGuire

#life #mystery #only #pilots #why

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. ↗

— Martin Luther

#clay #consulted #continue #generation #god

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets. ↗

— P. D. James

#credible #especially #guilty #motives #mysteries

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. ↗

— Bede Jarrett

#attractive #follow #mysterious #people #will