John Piper Quotes

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

He that does evil hates the light.

I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.

I broke my uncle's toy as a kid and never told him about it.

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place

It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.

The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Nothing is burdensome as a secret.

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Sometimes I hid my family connections.

The idea that the more you hide something, the more it becomes something that's supposed to feel shameful is very true.

Families that have addicted members learn to operate with secrecy.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

There can be...no power...to disclose...the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them until the day when all hidden things be revealed.

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.

A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."