#mystery

Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is?' 'What?' 'A sport!' 'And a damned good sport too,' said Tommy. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#romance #marriage

A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'" The husband, unlike the "manager" or the would-be objective scientist, belongs inherently to the complexity and the mystery that is to be husbanded, and so the husbanding mind is both careful and humble. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#humility #husbandry #land #mystery #food

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. ↗

— Simone Weil

#evil #knowledge #mystery #pain #root

The World will always need "magic". Without it, Life is nothing but cheap tricks. ↗

— Solange nicole

#life #magic #mystery-of-life #solange #life

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#mystery #true #visible #world

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds. ↗

— Gao Xingjian

#i #i always #male #many #men

Daddy had a strict rule about firearms. Anything we killed we had to eat. No amount of barbecue sauce would make a hairy guy like you palatable. ↗

— Diane Kelly

#humorous #irs #texas #death

There are people who will always doubt you and you have to live with it. It only gets a lot worse when you have to die with it! ↗

— Rakesh Ranjan

#dreams #life #love #mystery #philosophy

Carrying my babies was a marvelous mystery, lives growing unseen except by the slow swelling of my belly. Death is an even greater mystery. ... The God I cry out to in anguish or joy can neither be proved nor disapproved. The hope I have that death is not the end of all our questions can neither be proved nor disproved. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#faith #god #mystery-of-life #death

The basements of the churches I've loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belief so much as engagement with the mystery lurking at the base of all things. We build a framework on top of mystery because we need someplace to live, some manner of surviving nature's fury and our mundane daily needs. ↗

— Elizabeth J. Andrew

#church #mystery #home