“The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.” LightMysteryFunctionMake Sense Author:Nadine Gordimer
“There is no explanation you can give that will explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger in the world! You'll never explain it. Because life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly realize that reality is not the problem, you are the problem.” ThinkingWorldGivingMindMeanProblemRealityLife IsSufferingEvilRealizingMysteryDestructionWake UpHungerMake SenseExplanationTortureThinking Mind Author:Anthony de Mello
“The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.” MysteryMake SenseTestamentNew TestamentIncarnationUnfathomable Book:Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide Source: Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide
“CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it? And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this? HOBBES: I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday? CALVIN: Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.” IfsWholeShowsGuyReligionReligiousMysteryProveYeahMake SenseHolidaySantaSecrecyProve ItSanta ClausHobbesReligious Holiday Author:Bill Watterson
“I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?” IfsWorldEndsStoriesRealityLife IsLanguageClearMysteryTypePrayingLimitsThis LifeMake SenseI PrayLife Is LikeAfter DeathLife After Death Author:Scarlett Thomas
“As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.” PeopleIfsWayMeanDoeGodMysteryWitnessMake SensePropagandaEngagingStirringCardinalsEmmanuelWalking On Water Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. But life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. Every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made . Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning.” PeopleWorldMindLooksRealitySpiritualLife IsFoundMysteryFitFinishedAwakeningIdeologyMake SensePerceiveMeaning Of LifeAwakenedMeaning Life Author:Anthony de Mello
“It's a mystery," Vin said, narrowing her eyes and smiling. "We Mistborn are incredibly mysterious." Elend paused." Um...I'm Mistborn too, Vin. That doesn't make any sense." "We Mistborn need not make sense," Vin said." It's beneath us. Come on-the sun's already down. We need to get moving.” NeedsSaidEyeMovingSunMysteryMysteriousMake SenseHer EyesGet Moving Author:Brandon Sanderson
“I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives? So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.” ThinkingMenEndsStoriesLeftBornChanceAnimalOur LivesMysterySpeciesFinalsTalesMake SenseSpokesMakersImitationFinishingEnviousGift From God Author:Clive Barker