God Hides Quotes

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

Martin Luther

#2. The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.

Richard Rohr

#3. God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation
a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on from fact Divine He advances, until at length in His Son Jesus He unveils His very face.

George MacDonald

#4. God hides himself from intellectual dilettantes, but reveals himself in Christ to those who humbly seek him.

John R.W. Stott

#5. Those who have found God in the cross of Jesus Christ know how wonderfully God hides himself in this world and how he is closest precisely when we believe him to be most distant.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#6. Luther says that vocations are a mask from God. That is, God hides Himself in the workplace, the family, the Church, and the seemingly secular society

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#7. God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.

Robert Collyer

#8. God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

Paulo Coelho

#9. We can never know," Simon answered slowly. "God hides the future from man's eyes. We are forced to choose, not knowing. I have chosen Jesus.

Elizabeth George Speare

#10. God hides things by putting them near us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From that moment, the merest nothing reveals His presence, and the greatness of our life depends on so little.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#12. God hath his mysteries of grace,
Ways that we cannot tell,
He hides them deep, like the secret sleep
Of him he loved so well.

Cecil Frances Alexander

#13. A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it.

Eileen Atkins

#14. God has and always will remain faithful to His word. Even when my doubts and fears threaten to drown me as I thrash blindly against my Rescuer, He carries me to the other side. When fiery circumstances take my breath away, He hides me in the shelter of His wings.

Katherine J. Walden

#15. You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you

Paramahansa Yogananda

#16. CAMPBELL: All poets. Poetry is a metaphorical language. MOYERS: A metaphor suggests potential. CAMPBELL: Yes, but it also suggests the actuality that hides behind the visible aspect. The metaphor is the mask of God through which eternity is to be experienced.

Joseph Campbell

#17. Russell, an atheist, hypothesized a less vain deity when he said, "And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence" - which I might add He hides so well.

Anonymous

#18. Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

Mother Teresa

#19. Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

Thomas Carlyle

#20. God purposely hides truth so that only a worthy seeker can discover the hidden treasures of His Word (Prov. 25:2).

Anonymous

#21. 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

#22. To say that God turns away from the sinful is like saying that the sun hides from the blind.

Anthony The Great

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

Louis De Bernieres

#24. 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

#25. God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.

Victor Hugo

#26. The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

John Stott

#27. God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.

Arthur Symons

#28. God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#29. Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.

A.W. Tozer

#30. If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs," then clearly I had better be scrying the signs.

Annie Dillard

#31. The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign.
The Sibyl, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with her voice, thanks to the god in her.

Heraclitus

#32. Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#33. The heavens and the earth are around us that it may be possible for us to speak of the unseen by the seen, for the outermost husk of creation has correspondence with the deepest things of the Creator.
He is not a God that hides himself, but a God who made all that he might reveal himself.

George MacDonald

#34. 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

#35. God abhors a naked singularity because that's when things stop making sense. Predictability breaks down. That's why the universe takes all its dirty little secrets and hides them in the centre of a black hole.

Gavin G. Smith