Quotes about Masks

Our only option, then, is honesty that leads to repentance. As the Bible shows, God's grace can cover any sin, including murder, infidelity, or betrayal. Yet by definition grace must be received, and hypocrisy disguises our need to receive grace. When the masks fall, hypocrisy is exposed as an elaborate ruse to avoid grace.

Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

Grace strips away the tin, rips off the masks, helps us to be ourselves so that when we speak of our faith it rings true.

No one can wear a mask for very long.

We hide what we know or feel ourselves to be (which we assume to be unacceptable and unlovable) behind some kind of appearance which we hope will be more pleasing. We hide behind pretty faces which we put on for the benefit of our public. And in time we may even come to forget that we are hiding, and think that our assumed pretty face is what we really look like.

Is there no end to his disguises, of benevolence?

The "face of Christ" is the innocence and love behind the masks we all wear

Everybody lies--every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception--and purposely. Even in sermons--but that is a platitude.

The vultures group themselves on the roof like pigeons: tiny moron head, long necks, faces like Carnival masks, and dusty plumages, peering this and that attentively for death.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.