Quotes About Hidden

You must flee from them as you flee from roses that cannot be touched without exposure to the thorns. You must fear an agreeable contagion, the more dangerous because it is hidden. The serpent glides among the flowers.

Recall that one builds a labyrinth not to hide but to lie in wait.

There is a beehive under every pot of honey on the island of Manhattan

The mystery of the child's soul is hidden completely from the parents. It belongs to God alone, to whom life belongs.

Danger sometimes comes from a source that is least suspected.

I used to think death might be hidden somewhere on our bodies. Tucked behind the pupil like a coin, slid beneath the thumb nail, ribbon-wrapped "around a wrist bone. A sharp, dark sliver; a loose, pale pellet. Each person different. Each lifespan set. On the day of your death, it melts out through your entire body, a warm, broken bath bead. Until then, it waits-sealed and silent.

Love and a cough cannot be hidden.

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

find the box.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons.

The hostility and venomous response the topic of sexual trauma and rape in the military brings up, especially with men from my Era, is revealing. This opposition speaks to their guilt and toward the truth that stays hidden.

But he had a story. I guess everybody did. People walked around with this thick dark film sticking to them and until you scratched it, you had no idea.

Well, a marriage can look healthy on the outside and be loaded with problems inside.

Prayer is the divine enigma—that marvelous mystery hidden behind the cloud of God's omnipotence.

it is God himself, the Lord and Creator of all things, who is so small here, who is hidden here in the corner, who enters into the plainness of the world, who meets us in the helplessness and defenselessness of a child, and wants to be with us.

Those who have found God in the cross of Jesus Christ know how wonderfully God hides himself in this world

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Only the interior life can sustain us in the hidden, backbreaking labor of planting the seed that seems to go so long without fruit.

I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

Idaville looked like many seaside towns on the outside. On the inside, however, it was different. Very different.

He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.

There's something beautiful about keeping certain aspects of your life hidden. Maybe people and clouds are beautiful because you can't see everything.