A Quote by Charles Rollin

God hides Himself behind causes.

Charles Rollin

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Charles Rollin
January 30, 1661 - December 14, 1741

God will of necessity always be a hidden God. His loudest cry is silence. If he does not manifest himself to us, we will say that he hides himself. And if he manifests himself, we will accuse him of veiling himself. Ah! it is not easy for God to make himself known to us!

Louis Evely

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

Matthew Henry

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.

Ernest Hello

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.

Martin Luther

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

Louis de Bernieres

God doesn't hide Himself from you so that He can't be found; He hides Himself from you so that He can be found.

Tommy Tenney

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

Rumi

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

Edward T. Hall

If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

Edward T. Hall

Dana White hides behind a microphone and behind a TV camera and spouts off and calls people names because he doesn't like their opinion.

Ken Shamrock

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

Victor Hugo

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

Oswald Chambers

Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. ( Recherches de la vérité , Livre VI, seconde partie, chap. 3.) And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.

J. G. Holland

The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.

Harry Frankfurt

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