#mystery

They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take. ↗

— Blaize Clement

#mystery

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#mystery #atheism

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#certain #gather #grow #i #make

In the nineteenth century, The Romantics viewed Nature as benign, a glowing reflection of God's grace. Now we know better. Nature is brutal and, if it is feminine, she's not the kind of woman you can trust. Human beings may be her finest achievement yet, but when you get right down to brass tacks, we're meat. AIDS and organisms like streptococcus don't give a crap that we subdued the earth or produced a Shakespeare... ↗

— Richard Yancey

#dogs #humor #mystery #philosophy #nature

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#back #before #come #ever #going

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#another #believe #face #fact #film

You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!' ↗

— Harlan Coben

#because #box #buy #call #even

Mystery is not profoundness. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#ignorance #mystery #name #omniscient #perfectly

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#even #experience #fear #mixed #mystery