Quotes about Concealed

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.

It is a dreadful truth, but it is a truth that cannot be concealed; in ability, in dexterity, in the distinctness of their views, the Jacobins are our superiors.

Sin by its very nature is more often quiet and secretive than loud and public. For every overt episode of rage, there are dozens of jealousies, manipulations, white lies, and malicious thoughts, none of which immediately register on the conscience. And, according to Scripture, the greatest sin of all is even more covert: I do not love the Lord my God with my whole mind and heart. If our failure to consistently worship the true God is the key feature of sin, we are sinners all.

We never know what horrific and powerful currents run beneath the seemingly calm surface of another's life.

Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

What can't be known or named except in our feeble attempt to clothe it in language.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.