Quotes about Obscure

Anyone, therefore, who obscures the glory of God, puts himself in the position of striving to subvert the eternal purpose of God.

War is like night," she said. "It covers everything.

I'm such a nobody.

NOBODIES HAVE LASTING SIGNIFICANCE

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.

If the testimony by which the Jews were assured of the salvation of their posterity is taken away from us, the coming of Christ would have the effect of making God's grace more obscure and less well attested to us than it was to the Jews before us.

Pragmatism and subjectivism obscure the reality of the truth. They engage the mind, but they make it the servant of our desires and our work. But they can't answer which desires I should pursue and which work is worthwhile.

Instrumental music was only tolerated, on account of the times and of the people. But in gospel times, we must not have recourse to these, unless we wish to destroy the evangelical perfection, and to obscure the meridian light, which we enjoy in Christ our Lord.

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.

Let grief distract the sufferer's breast, And night obscure his way; They hasten him to endless rest, And everlasting day.