Hiddenness Quotes

“Jesus loves hidden souls. A hidden flower is the most fragrant. I must strive to make the interior of my soul a resting place for the Heart of Jesus.”
― Faustina Kowalska, Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul

“In seasons of hiddenness our sense of value is disrupted, stripped of what "others" affirmed us to be. In this season God intends to give us an unshakable identity in Him, that no amount of adoration nor rejection can alter.”
― Alicia Britt Chole, Anonymous: Jesus' Hidden Years ... and Yours

“I began realizing it was okay to just sit with Him instead of always reading and journaling prayers or hustling off to the next bible study. It was okay to just be still. It was possible to find Him in the immense stillness, the hidden parts of my heart. He was always there in my hiddenness.”
― Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life

“If a λόγος as ἀπόφανσις is to be true, its Being-true is ἀληθεύειν in the manner of ἀποφαίνεσθαι—of taking entities out of their hiddenness and letting them be seen in their unhiddenness (their uncoveredness).”
― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

“If we proceed like the child does with the puppy, if we examine what is hidden in things and persons, in everything that is stimulating in this colorful world, then we will uncover nothing more than that kind of atomized sawdust with which 'science' for a long time has been feeding those hungry for knowledge. Everything real looked at in the light disappoints. The forms lose their shine, color, and aroma, like a fruit that someone has grasped too strongly.”
― Helmuth Plessner, Grenzen der Gemeinschaft

“The soul suffers from nothing more than from not being understood. This is, though, its fate elicited by its own nature.”
― Helmuth Plessner, Grenzen der Gemeinschaft