Mystery Quotes by Wendell Berry

11 Mystery quotes by Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry’s eleven brief reflections invite you to pause and consider the quiet mysteries of the world. The tone is gentle, making each line a small, contemplative pause.

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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

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It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in…

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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

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Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of…

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You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a…

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“A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'"…

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I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given…

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Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and…

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We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance…

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“It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either…

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“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been…

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“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.…

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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

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The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

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