Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.
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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
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There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.
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