“Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.”
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
“Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.”
Source: The Witches of Worm
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American writer of children's fiction 1927–2014Related quotes
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Source: Time and Again (1951), Chapter I (p. 6)
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Source: The Spiritual Life (1947), p. 304
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I Believe in Prayer - - How Prayer helps me The Dial Press 1955
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
15 January 1753
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- The sense of the ineffable, p. 89 -->
Context: Faith is not belief, an assent to a proposition, faith is attachment to the meaning beyond the mystery.
Knowledge is fostered by curiosity; wisdom is fostered by awe. Awe precedes faith; it is the root of faith. We must be guided by awe to be worthy of faith.
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the world becomes a market place for you. The loss of awe is the avoidance of insight. A return to reverence is the first prerequisite for a revival of wisdom, for the discovery of the world as an allusion to God.