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"When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself."
"The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject."
"Dance on the edge of mystery."
"Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'"
"The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery."
"There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!"
"Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow."
"We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God."
"I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts."
"You believe God is not there, but He is, Hidden in the secret of the divine mystery"
"Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me."
"In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy."
"One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle."
"I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know."
"Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world."
"We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all."
"Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery."
"Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one."
"Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved."
"True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery."
