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Quotes About Secret

God's purpose remains God's secret, and he alone can justify his deeds among men. So
~ John Calvin
true knowledge of God and of the secret of his wisdom comes from faith, because the obedience of faith opens to us the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven.
~ John Calvin
He should creep on by clandestine acts, and not contend in open battle according to the practice of those who excel in courage; he should secretly try many schemes, and thus stealthily extend his empire.
~ John Calvin
But the secret counsel of God is something else. It is so deep and so high that no exploration can attain to it.
~ John Calvin
Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.
~ John Connolly
This is the whole secret of the practice of Elementalism: it obtains happiness by the most rigid and austere simplification of the means to happiness.
~ John Cowper Powys
His secret-agentry was over, but he had by this time gone so long in disguise indetectably as a member of his family that by slow stages he had actually become one.
~ John Crowley
the truth of the event does not belong to the order of identificatory knowledge, as if our life's charge were to track down and learn the secret name of some fugitive spirit.
~ John D. Caputo
Potential is the good of life -- action the secret key.
~ Deron Williams
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer
~ Oswald Chambers
Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.
~ Jose Saramago
Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.
~ Guy Finley
The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.
~ Lu Yen-hsun
Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.
~ Og Mandino
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
~ Adam Gopnik
Some mysteries are simply irresistible," she said. "They have components that alter a life.
~ Anne Rice
Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.
~ Brian Jacques
This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Many a frozen night, and merrily Answered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all bores: "At Mrs Greenland's Hawthorn Bush," said he, "I slept." None knew which bush. Above the town, Beyond `The Drover', a hundred spot the down In Wiltshire. And where now at last he sleeps More sound in France -that, too, he secret keeps.
~ Edward Thomas
Life has no purpose. It just 'is.' This is the 'secret' children know and adults forget as they launch head first into a life of compulsion and bondage as they pursue the world. Children do not appropriate and are free. Adults desire the wrong things and throw themselves into exile.
~ Edward Weiss
I am being observed, secretly, and discovered by close observation through someone's team member/members, who are nowhere. The globe is visible within my spirituality. I am not allowed to disclose the secret of mystical powers. Only you can reach my heart with your heart. Don't go far, don't play games; you will lose everything; you have established in my heart.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
If you trust me enough to tell me a secret, I certainly promise to keep it. Please speak freely, on any subject.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
she did not still feel, as I did, the anxiety about a woman who was suffering for love. What did I care about shoes. I still had, in my mind's eye, the most secret stages of that affair of violated trust, passion, poetry that became a book, and it was as if she and I had read a novel together, as if we had seen, there in the back of the shop and not in the parish hall on Sunday, a dramatic film. I
~ Elena Ferrante
Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. I remember the dialect on my mother's lips when she lost that gentle cadence and yelled at us, poisoned by her unhappiness: I can't take you anymore, I can't take any more.
~ Elena Ferrante
Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.
~ Elena Ferrante