Mysteries Quote by François-René de Chateaubriand Download Open image “There is no religion without mysteries. God Himself is the great secret of Nature.” — François-René de Chateaubriand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare God Great Mysteries Mysteries God Mystery Nature Religion Religion Mysteries Secret
A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all. — Edwin Lewis Copy Share Image
“Only bad religions depend on mysteries, just as bad governments depend on secret police. Truth, beauty and goodness are not mysterious, they are the… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Human knowledge, by its nature, has limits, so some questions must remain mysteries. Some religions treat such mysteries as secrets that the gods choose… — David Christian Copy Share Image
As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
There are two consequences in history; an immediate one, which is instantly recognized, and one in the distance, which is not at first perceived.… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory . — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“[L]ike a kingfisher I have made my nest on the waves.” — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's better not to know some things. Mysteries make us tick more than just about anything else.” — Jason Carter Eaton Copy Share Image
If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”…… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“There are some mysteries of the universe that ought to remain mysteries.” — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is the joy… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I have a sense of them being Easter religions, for some reason. Christianity, of course, is a mystery religion, too, and I believe that… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I don't believe in destroying GOOD mysteries or adding to BAD reputations. — John Balance Copy Share Image
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“...spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.” — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
I don't have a whole bunch of literary connections. I don't write reviews or attend writer's conferences. I'm kind of shy and don't want… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image