“As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.” EnoughBrainMysteryAtheismMinesPositive AtheismActiveDivinityImpossibilitySubtletyAiry Author:Thomas Browne
“The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten by the little horned snake of the desert that goes sidewise and strikes without coiling, than by the tradition of a lost mine.” LittlesLostAirMysteryMinesTraditionStrikesTreasureDesertSnakesFables Book:Stories from the Country of Lost Borders Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders
“Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.” IfsThinkingTwoBrainConsciousnessMysteryHavensMinesPopsMysteriousShootingNeurons Author:Charles Krauthammer
“I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a sappy spirituality that portrays God as such a benign teddy bear that there is no aberrant behavior or desire of mine that he will not condone. I want a relationship with the Abba of Jesus, who is infinitely compassionate with my brokenness and at the same time an awesome, incomprehensible, and unwieldy Mystery.” WantStatesDesireSpiritualityFatherJesusChristianityMysteryMinesBearsBehaviorTerroristHeavenlyCompassionatePerpetualHeavenly FatherBrokennessFrightBenignTeddyTeddy BearAbba Author:Brennan Manning
“Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.” WorldMysteryMissingMinesVainMarchMasteryCitadels Author:Wilfred Owen