Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
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A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.
Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the same about mystery and intellect. They are somehow mysteriously akin to each other.
There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.
We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning.
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
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