Sentences with phrase «hiddenness from»

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Let it, then, be hidden from all men, no matter how its hiddenness might be able to support him, yet he could not hide it from that inner companion, before whom he is most of all ashamed.

This situation is nowhere more clearly described in modern literature than in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever - present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human world as given over to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates to us.

Kafka knows God's hiddenness, and he describes most exactly from inner awareness «the rule of the foul devilry which fills the foreground.»

And, oh, to my thinking this is one expression the more of the dreadfulness of this most dreadful sickness and misery, namely, its hiddenness — not only that he who suffers from it may wish to hide it and may be able to do so, to the effect that it can so dwell in a man that no one, no one whatever discovers it; no, rather that it can be so hidden in a man that he himself does not know it!

The hiddenness is from ourselves.28 Discipleship means looking at and following Christ.

Christian preaching, then, is not the denial of God's or Christ's hiddenness but the means by which God functions from his hiddenness to call people into responsible, authentic existence.

The perishing, taken anything like literally, is an illusion occasioned by the hiddenness of deity from us.