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  • The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.

    Girl   Veils   Modesty  
  • Take away, O Lord, the veil of my heart while I read the Scriptures.

    Bible   Christian   Heart  
    Lancelot Andrewes (1861). “The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes: Translated from the Greek and Arranged Anew”
  • You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore.

    Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clive Wilmer (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.91, Routledge
  • Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

    H. Rider Haggard (2001). “All Adventure: Cleopatra”, p.103, Essential Library
  • 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.

    Thinking   Mind   Use  
  • No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either

  • When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

    Energy   Veils   Painting  
  • I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

  • So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but isn't that a mediocre service, which after all we could have done without; and, it is not even to be feared that this artificial language be a veil, interposed between reality and the physicist's eye? Far from that, without this language most of the initimate analogies of things would forever have remained unknown to us; and we would never have had knowledge of the internal harmony of the world, which is, as we shall see, the only true objective reality.

    Eye   Science   Reality  
    "Statistical Mechanics of Disordered Systems: A Mathematical Perspective". Book by Anton Bovier, p. 3, 2006.
  • The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.

    Veils   Action   Vehicle  
    Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com
  • To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the thin veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.

    Dirty   Thinking   People  
  • The sovereigns of the earth do not always grant audience readily; on the contrary, the King of Heaven, hidden under the eucharistic veils, is ready to receive anyone.

    Kings   Heaven   Veils  
  • I remember walking into the Bible study. I had a knot in my stomach. In my mind, only weirdoes and zealots went to Bible studies. I don't remember what was said that day. All I know is that when I left, everything had changed. I'll never forget standing outside that apartment on the Upper East Side and saying to myself, “It's true. It's completely true.” The world looked entirely different, like a veil had been lifted off it. I had not an iota of doubt. I was filled with indescribable joy.

    Joy   Mind   Doubt  
  • Somewhere, sometime, somehow you got tangled up in garbage, and you've been avoiding God. You've allowed a veil of guilt to come between you and your Father. You wonder if you could ever feel close to God again. The message of the torn flesh is you can. God welcomes you. God is not avoiding you. God is not resisting you. The curtain is down, the door is open, and God invites you in

    Father   Doors   Tangled  
    Max Lucado (2012). “He Chose the Nails”, p.191, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.

    Men   Effort   Veils  
    R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.127, The Overlook Press
  • My heart is burning with love. All I can see is this flame. My heart is burning with passion, like waves on an ocean. I'm at home, wherever I am. And in the room of lovers, I can see with closed eyes the beauty that dances. Behind the veils, intoxicated with love, I too dance the rhythm of this moving world.

    Ocean   Moving   Heart  
  • The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

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

    Two   Special   Veils  
  • Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

    Art   Nature   Men  
    Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.51, City Lights Books
  • When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

    Smell   People   Giving  
    Octave Mirbeau (2007). “The Diary of a Chambermaid”, Harper Collins
  • We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.' Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.

    Stars   Night   Darkness  
  • People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

    Mirrors   People   Gazing  
    Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”
  • The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

    John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.11, Harvard University Press
  • If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

    Art   Soul   Veils  
  • The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve, shyness,fear.

    Dance   Fear   Mind  
  • Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.

    Block   Real   Lying  
  • When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to give you anything more? They would say: Hast Thou not brightened our faces? Hast Thou not made us enter Paradise and saved us from Fire? He would lift the veil, and of things given to them nothing would be dearer to them than the sight of their Lord, the Mighty and the Glorious.

    Blessed   Islamic   Fire  
  • Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.

    Rip   Together   Veils  
  • God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.

    God   Truth   Withdrawal  
    Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”
  • We have no idea who we really are. Whatever glory bestowed, whatever glory is being restored, we thought the whole Christian thing was about... something else. Trying not to sin. Going to church. Being nice. Jesus says it is about healing your heart, setting it free, restoring your glory. A religious fog has tried to veil all that, put us under some sort of spell or amnesia, to keeup us from coming alive.

    John Eldredge (2008). “Eldredge 3 in 1 - Sacred Romance , Waking the Dead, Desire”, p.260, Thomas Nelson Inc
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