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God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.


African Proverb

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MARK TWAIN Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In his private heart no man much respects himself.
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ALBERT EINSTEIN A devotee should trouble only one person, the God, until he reveals himself to him.
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MARK TWAIN From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object...
MARK TWAIN O, how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul! The intellect of man sits e...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who...
ALBERT EINSTEIN It is difficult to know why God reveals Himself to some and plays the game of hide-and-seek with oth...
BABA RAMDAS In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only tw...
BHAGAT SINGH God Himself is a man of war and He teaches His children how to wage war
SUNDAY ADELAJA God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
HELEN KELLER . . . a man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at ...
MARK TWAIN His history of exploiting African-Americans means he is going to have to prove himself.
BARRY SAUNDERS Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their kn...
MARK TWAIN What soberness conceals, Drunkenness reveals
PROVERB What sobriety conceals, drunkenness reveals.
ANONYMOUS If the mercy of God is so great that He can instruct us, to our salvation, even when He hides Himsel...
BLAISE PASCAL The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God
HORACE Man is the creature with a mystery in his heart that is bigger than himself.
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR Speech both conceals and reveals the thoughts of men
LATIN PROVERB When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrash...
THOMAS HUGHES When God Himself bestows His Glance of Grace, He blends us into Himself.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainme...
AMIT KALANTRI God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself.
MATTHEW BARKER Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
HORACE You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the...
GEORGE MACDONALD A man though carrying God may be of no worth to himself, to his family, to his nation and to the peo...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 It is clear that he does not pray, wh...
THOMAS AQUINAS Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPER Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPER Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will
WILLIAM COWPER That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
MARY ASTELL Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurp'd, from G...
JOHN MILTON Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
JOHANNES TAULER This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concern...
EMIL BRUNNER The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.
CRISS JAMI Feast of All Souls If you ask me how I believe in God, how God creates Himself in me, and reveals...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man...
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man ...
CHARLES LINDBERGH There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own...
JOHN GOWER Imagination is thee ability to creat witch god gave us in witch god himself created man in his image...
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GEORGE GRANVILLE, LORD LANDSDOWNE The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, ...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another’s burdens; for no man is without f...
THOMAS à KEMPIS Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable...
MARK TWAIN Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable...
MARK TWAIN Duties are not performed for duties' sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortabl...
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THOMAS À KEMPIS Rare is the man who seeks not only to heal himself but to heal his fellow man.
JOSé N. HARRIS When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnip...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.
JAN CHRISTIAN SMUTS A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oa...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relat...
LEO TOLSTOI My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself ...
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.
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THOMAS MERTON Every man for himself and God for us all.
PROVERB Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
SENECA An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that...
A. W. TOZER An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that...
AIDEN WILSON TOZER An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that...
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are al...
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JOHN PIPER What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ...
CATHERINE CROWE Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand.
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MARK TWAIN When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects...
MARK TWAIN Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
GEORGE SANTAYANA 'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.
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GEORGE WHITEFIELD …he strove to leave his life in the hands of God, and to forget himself.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good ac...
GEORGE ORWELL A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDER DUMAS A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
AMBROSE BIERCE A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist--nothing shields him from the world's gaze except h...
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WANG YANG-MING An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a goo...
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