Quotes about Secrecy

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

For nearly thirty years, the One who had crafted the universe with His voice crafted furniture with His hands. And He was good at what He did—no crooked table legs ever came out of the carpenter's shop in Nazareth.1 But Jesus was more than a master carpenter. He was also God incognito. His miraculous powers rank as history's best-kept secret for nearly three decades, but all that changed the day water blushed in the face of its Creator.

He answered emails in one word—partly a paranoia about email, but even more a controlling crypticness.

Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God's presence, never in full view of the world.

The main idea in the region of religion is—Your eyes upon God, not on men. Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door and talk to God in secret. Have no other motive than to know your Father in heaven. It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer:

Never show the depth of your life to anyone but God.

One of the best pieces of advice I've ever received was from my grandmother, who said, "A woman always has to keep something of her own, even if it's a jar of quarters." The other was from my agent, another wise woman, who told me twenty years ago: "You don't have to tell everything you know.

After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.

Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof

And if you report our mission, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.”