Quotes About Veil

which is why he always concealed them

This is what occurs at the very beginning of the Gospel of Mark, when John the Baptist baptizes Jesus in the River of Jordan. "Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the spirit descending on him like a dove." [Mark 1:10, NIV] When you awaken, when spirit descends, the veil of your dream state is torn apart, and all of a sudden you're awakened to a new reality.

Pat's been deserted -- have you heard that, darling? Do you think she'll take the veil or cocaine or something?

There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

in a voice with half the steps missing.

The veil was a kind of wall of privacy, the marker of a woman for one man, a portable architecture of confinement.

bold as to ask a question, miss?" In the process of removing the dratted veil from her head, Lou sighed patiently. Though she was certain Jaynes had played a part of spy for her exasperating overprotective father, Lou had

every which way, making her resemble a cross between Cruella DeVille and Medusa, she thought disgustedly. She needed a barrette, a headband, something. Inspiration struck. Lou rifled through the bridal debris until she found the item she'd been looking for: her veil. Lips pursed

Life the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.

The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.

We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

Everybody put on masks, including you and me. We all wear masks.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.

Life feels good if you don't know what it is.

So it became, the law of universe, to have the, profoundest, of the words, cloaked in the, darkest of the masks.

Religion is a veil that we often use to cover our ugliness.

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

The florid style is the reverse of the familiar. The last is employed as an unvarnished medium to convey ideas; the first is resorted to as a spangled veil to conceal the want of them. When there is nothing to be set down but words, it costs little to have them fine.

The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.