Mystery Of God Quotes

• Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

  Bil Keane

  Powerful, Yesterday And Today, Yesterday Is History

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• When the solution is simple, God is answering.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Positive

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• True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.

  John Shelby Spong

  Journey, Religion, Doe

  "Q&A on The Parliament of the World's Religions". Weekly mailing, September 5, 2007.

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• To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Finding Love, Sanctuary, Mystery

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved.

  Henri Nouwen

  Brother, Mystery, Incredibles

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• People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

  Allan Hamilton

  Thinking, People, Rolling

  "A Soulful Surgeon". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

  Anais Nin

  Spiritual, Life Lesson, Knowledge

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• It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  God, Radiance, Faces

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• God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

  William Cowper

  God, Beach, Moving

  Olney Hymns "Light Shining Out of Darkness" l. 1 (1779)

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• Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.

  John Calvin

  Stupid, Men, Understanding

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• The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Hug, Arms, Mystery

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• Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nature, Animal, Path

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• The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Men, Identity

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• God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Religious, Religion, Atheism

  "Superstrings: A Theory of Everything?". Book edited by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, June 16, 1988.

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• The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Giving, Contentment

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• Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Light, Environmental

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• There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Analysis, Mystery, Christianity

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (2016). “Prayer”, p.101, Ignatius Press

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• The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.

  Pope Francis

  Ornaments, Mystery, Sin

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• Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Mystery, Sincere, Thee

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.378, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Arms, Mystery

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• By His Resurrection, Christ conquered sin and death, destroyed Satan's dark kingdom, freed the enslaved human race and broke the seal on the greatest mysteries of God and man.

  Nikolaj Velimirovic

  Dark, Men, Race

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• Draw nigh to the righteous, and through them you will draw nigh to God. Communicate with those who possess humility, and you will learn morals from them. A man who follows one who loves God becomes rich in the mysteries of God; but he who follows an unrighteous and proud man gets far away from God, and will be hated by his friends.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls.

  Omar Khayyam

  Soul, Paradise, Retreat

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• It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Tired, May, Orthodoxy

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• God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems which human beings have created to try to help us walk into the mystery of God. I honor my tradition, I walk through my tradition, but I don't think my tradition defines God, I think it only points me to God.

  John Shelby Spong

  God, Christian, Buddhist

  "Walking into the Mystery of God" by John Shelby Spong, www.uua.org.

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