Veils Quotes - Page 17

• In our hearts there burns a fire...
  That burns all veils to their root and foundation
  When those veils have been burned away
  Then the heart will understand completely.
  Ancient love will unfold ever-fresh forms
  In the heart of the Spirit,
  In the core of the heart.

  Rumi

  Heart, Fire, Roots

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• O King of glory, though you hide your beauty, yet the eye of my soul rends the veil. I see the angelic choirs giving you honor without cease.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Kings, Eye, Giving

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• A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  "A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl". Book by Helen Rowland. Chapter: "Second Marriages", 1922.

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• A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

  E. B. White

  Poetry, Doe, Dare

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.164, Cornell University Press

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• Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mean, Mad, Secret

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• Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dawn, Degrees, Watches

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.109, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Attitude, People

  Hugh Marlais Davies, Francis Bacon (2001). “Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953”, Museum of Contemporary Art San

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• My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

  Eudora Welty

  Fall, Passion, Plight

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• The loving and much loved wife is satisfied with the love of her husband; his smile is her joy, she cares little for any other. So, if you have come to Christ, thy Maker is thine husband - His free love to you is all you need, and all you can care for - there is no cloud between you and God - there is no veil between you and the Father; you have access to Him who is the fountain of happiness - what have you to do any more with idols? Oh! If your heart swims in the rays of God's love, like a little mote swimming in the sunbeam, you will have no room in your heart for idols.

  Robert E. Murray

  Husband, Father, Heart

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• If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.

  Robert E. Murray

  Prayer, Children, Done

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• True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
  Whose veil is unremoved
  Till heart with heart in concord beats,
  And the lover is beloved.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Heart, True Beauty

  "To ____ ('Let other bards of angels sing...')". Poem by William Wordsworth, www.bartleby.com. 1824.

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• Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence of the Lord. Worship is the heart poured out in gratitude and awe, expressing our appreciation of who He is and what He has done for us by His grace through Jesus Christ.

  Dave Hunt

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Jesus

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• But what about you? Have you prayed about your own ancestors’ work? Set aside those things in your life that don’t really matter. Decide to do something that will have eternal consequences. Perhaps you have been prompted to look for ancestors but feel you are not a genealogist. Can you see that you don’t have to be anymore? It all begins with love and a sincere desire to help those beyond the veil who can’t help themselves. Check around. There will be someone in your area who can help you have success.

  Richard G. Scott

  Desire, Looks, Matter

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• Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the home, bringing up the kids. The women who did work were treated as second-class citizens because it was a male-dominated society. That was a fact of life then. But it wouldn't be tolerated today, and that's quite right in my book... people look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful, white male.

  Jon Hamm

  Powerful, Book, Kids

  "'I am just a lucky nerd': Jon Hamm on why he can't believe he got the part of Mad Men's Don Draper" By David Wigg, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 4, 2011.

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• The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Soul, Desire, Battle

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• A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo.  Use it often.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Thinking, Mind, Use

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• A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.

  Marion Woodman

  Strong, Essence, Naked

  Marion Woodman (2001). “Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul”, p.93, Conari Press

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• Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Two, Special, Modesty

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• God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Soul, Lips, Feels

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• The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

  Bill Vaughan

  Confession, Secrecy, Priests

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• Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try,
  And ring suspected vessels ere they buy;
  But wives, a random choice, untried they take;
  They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake;
  Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away,
  And all the woman glares in open day.

  Alexander Pope

  Dream, Horse, Men

  Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.87

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• Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.

  Stacy Aumonier

  Memories, Heart, Law

  Stacy Aumonier (1920). “One After Another”

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• Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Inquiry, Language, Draws

  Godfrey Higgins (2010). “Eadras and the Ancient Jewish Cabal”

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• Congress' dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters and its misconduct is exposed. This will no longer go unchallenged. The younger generation will not accept these actions of Congress!

  Narendra Modi

  People, Politics, India

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• The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.

  Walter Benjamin

  Cities, Crowds, Landscape

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.40, Harvard University Press

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