Quotes About Revelation

the most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body.

Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.

where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside.

The shock of standing again under the wide pale sky, completely exposed. This must be what the oyster feels when the lemon juice falls.

If they made a film of my inner life, it would be more than the public could take. Mothers would scream, Bring back The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, so we can have some decent family entertainment!

The mess that's emerging...at least reflects the truth of my experience, the fact that every contemplation is interrupted, and that every interruption becomes further object of contemplation, and that this rhythm of delusion and revelation feels as if it's essential to the nature of consciousness considering itself.

Though the cross and everything leading up to it violate our sensibilities and we are rightly aghast, the reality is that human beings have never liked God very much. At the cross, the nature of God was most fully revealed. As a result, human contempt was also most fully revealed and brought to a laser-like focus and intensity.

God's self-revelation is a higher authority than our feelings.

If the potential presence/arrival of another person can reveal the ungodliness in our behavior, how much more the coming of Christ himself?

Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.3 What do you see in your own heart?

If you want to know more about yourself, turn to Jesus. When

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

As Lad passed in through the doorway, he halted involuntarily in dismay. Dogs—dogs—DOGS! More than two thousand of them, from Great Dane to toy terrier, benched in row after row throughout the vast floor space of the Garden! Lad had never known there were so many dogs on earth.

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

passes he stands for a moment close to us, as though illumined by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is. After

His bread incident was just like my own story of getting run over. I didn't get hurt, exactly, though I did get to see the underside of something I thought I knew but I didn't. My father and I, in our turn, got to see something new in the middle of what was absolutely familiar, which is the hardest place to see it. Neither of us ever forgot.

El pasado, creo, es mucho más difícil de ocultar que el presente.

L'art rallume toujours les lumières du paradis perdu

Traté de imaginar que había hombres que dejaban transcurrir su vida —su única vida— encerrados entre los muros de una casa y las estrechas calles de una ciudad sin ver jamás ponerse el Sol sobre la raya azul del mar y me dije que debía existir un infierno especial para los que, incapaces de ver lo que Dios creó, permanecen ciegos y sordos ante la inmensa maravilla de la naturaleza

Wine, dear boy, and truth.