Quotes About Secret

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.

The prayers of the Christian are secret but their effect cannot be hidden.

The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

'Tis in my memory lock'd,And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

One, two, and the third in your bosom.

The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.

I'm sure the red fern has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too. Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fern.

It seemed as though the secret of the universe had miraculously appeared right here at our feet, as though God's notebook had opened under our bench.

La expresión de sus rostros, sin embargo no reflejaba angustia. Sus miradas se alzaban hasta algún punto del horizonte y sus ojos se mostraban tan serenos como la lisa superficie de una laguna perdida en el corazón del bosque, bajo la cual se oculta una multitud de recuerdos secretos.

Remember what I said about worlds," Nettie said, "and time. You have said it yourself – I heard it like a whisper on the wind. It is all dreams within dreams. That is the real secret. Time is not made up of one long string, but of layers.

Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice to you?

To overcome blame, it is necessary to look at the secret satisfaction and enjoyment we get out of self-pity, resentment, anger, and self-excuses, and to begin to surrender all of these little payoffs.

we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States... If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

G. K. Chesterton claimed that joy, "which is the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian . . . and the dominant theme of Christian faith. By its creed (i.e., what we believe) joy becomes something gigantic and sadness something special (occasional) and small.

The summation of a person's life is the sum of what they held in their affections. This natural gravity field, this natural gravity well of belonging, which finds a particular coloration according to the way we're made, is the secret keep to compassion.

our quest for the secret of life was stupid and meaningless. There was no secret; there was only the crushing bondage of being, and finally when it was time to be no more, nothingness.

in such investigations secret. It was enough to know that justice was satisfied by our efforts. Justice—but not always the law. We had little faith in the established systems that governed our island. We had, both of us, fallen afoul of what was strictly legal, and we were thoroughly convinced that justice was the superior aim.

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.