Quotes About Epiphany

It seemed like I woke up one morning and had an epiphany. I thought, 'I cannot do this. I do not want to get married. And I'm not going to law school - it just doesn't excite me. I'm not wasting anybody's money. I'm going to move to New York.'

The Limbaugh Theorem was not about me giving me credit for something. It was simply sharing with you when the light went off.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Jesus is, for us as Christians, the decisive revelation of what a life full of God looks like. Radically centered in God and filled with the Spirit, he is the decisive disclosure and epiphany of what can be seen of God embodied in a human life. As the Word and Wisdom and Spirit of God become flesh, his life incarnates the character of God, indeed, the passion of God. In him we see God's passion.

the story of Jesus is thus a story of God and us. This does not mean, of course, that the historical Jesus was God. But because the completed story affirms that God was present in and through Jesus, the story of Jesus becomes a disclosure of God, the revelation and epiphany of God. As a

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

The only time I know that something is true is the moment I discover it in the act of writing.

Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.

she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.

And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me.

Sometimes the body experiences a revelation because it has abandoned every other possibility.

But there sometimes comes a moment, a small, silent white explosion of awareness.

her sister's snuffly breaths across the room. Okay, then: think of Derek's proposal. He had no idea how much he'd asked of her, suggesting she give up her work with Dr. Brogan. The discovery of language had been her great epiphany in college.

Nobody whispers it in your ear. It is like something you memorized once and forgot. Now it comes back and rips away your breath. You find and finger a phrase at a time; you lay it down cautiously, as if with tongs, and wait suspended until the next one finds you: Ah yes, then this; and yes, praise be, then this.

And suddenly there came a second, when somehow for the first time I saw (as if a door had opened from a dark room into the sunny street), and in the next second I already knew for sure that God exists and that God is the Jesus Christ of Orthodoxy, and not some other God. I call this moment the greatest miracle because this precise knowledge came to me not through reason (I know this for sure) but by some other way, and I am unable to explain this moment rationally ....

And, for some, closeness to death brings an epiphany which alters their lives forever.

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

I think the biggest shift has been in realizing how much more we are creating our life than we realize. That was sort of the epiphany to me.

In the middle of the breakup I had an epiphany: If I got fewer than eight hours of sleep, it felt like my world was coming to an end. But on the days when I got more than eight hours of sleep (and exercised), I was able to put it all behind me. It blew my mind that my entire outlook on a relationship could be so noticeably influenced by my bedtime.

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

Sometimes what you're looking for is right under your nose and you don't even know it.

only then did I wake out of the book.