Quotes about Obscure

For formerly, under the papacy, when I was a monk, it was by no means customary to speak of a promise. And I give thanks to God that I may live at this time, when this word "promise" resounds in my ears and in the ears of all the godly. For he who hears the Word easily understands the divine promise, which was obscure and unknown to all the theologians throughout the papacy.

May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.

So they answered that they did not know where it was from.

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

I'm such a nobody.

That view of the Cross, it cannot be denied, runs counter to the mind of the natural man. It is not, indeed, complicated or obscure; on the contrary it is so simple that a child can understand, and what is really obscure is the manifold modern effort to explain the Cross away in such fashion as to make it more agreeable to human pride.

That we affix no sense unto any obscure or difficult passage of Scripture but what is materially true and consonant unto other express and plain testimonies.

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

What good is much discussion of involved and obscure matters when our ignorance of them will not be held against us on Judgment Day? Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

In feelings we really know that something is "there," and solidly so. But what it is and why it is remains obscure—though hauntingly present.

NOBODIES HAVE LASTING SIGNIFICANCE