Quotes About Revealed

Watch a man in times of... adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

Any smidgen of emotion revealed would crack the careful mask of control and leave the person in pieces.

A clean light soaked into the shaggy bark of a eucalyptus and it was a powerful thing to see, the whole tree glowed, it showed electric and intense, the branches ran to soft fire, the tree seemed revealed.

Initial uniformity can be deceiving, warns the author, because parties arrive at that state from so many different motives which will be exposed over time.

Let it never be said that we cannot know whether a Christian really loves Christ. It can be known. It can be discovered. The proof can be seen. You have heard them this very day. Love to the Lord Jesus Christ is no hidden, secret, unseen thing. It is like the light – it will be seen. It is like sound – it will be heard. It is like heat – it will be felt. Where it exists, it cannot be hidden. Where it cannot be seen, you can be sure there is none.

the inside of her closet doorjamb until she found the secret

faces that it was.

Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.

the surprised bookseller, whose name (inexplicably) was Mendelssohn. He was no relation to the German composer, and this Mendelssohn either overliked his last name or disliked his first so much that he never revealed it. (When Ted had once asked him his first name, Mendelssohn had said only: Not Felix.)

Scoprii che Achille non era sempre così serio come sembrava. La sua compostezza imperturbabile nascondeva un altro volto, divertente e sfaccettato come una gemma che catturava la luce.

Boniface soon revealed his real purpose, which was to berate Æthelbald for his lascivious lifestyle.

It was one of those details that dwell in a special kind of obscurity reserved for the perfectly obvious.

All this had been a source of pleasure to me, but that pleasure had remained hidden; it was one of those visitors who wait before letting us know that they are in the room until all the rest have gone and we are by ourselves.

Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden.

This happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Some truths refused to be hidden.

Uvijek svi znaju za nesre?u i zlo, samo dobro ostaje skriveno.

But secrets never, ever disappear, even after they are revealed. And that's the real secret right there. The empty space that never gets filled. The entropy of falsehood. The real secret is the secret itself.

Yes, readers of this book, none of you really care to see humanity revealed in its nakedness. "Why should we do so?" you say. "What would be the use of it? Do we not know for ourselves that human life contains much that is gross and contemptible? Do we not with our own eyes have to look upon much that is anything but comforting? Far better would it be if you would put before us what is comely and attractive, so that we might forget ourselves a little.

But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable.

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.