Famous quotes containing the word mysteries:
“For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
“In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“I keep the law,
I hold the mysteries true,
I am the vine,
the branches, you
and you.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)