Quotes About Revelation

History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you." --from Past Present and Future are One

Nevertheless, in whatever form idolatrous religion appeared, precisely because it was derived from the external, and increasingly lost the factor of spiritual revelation, it could develop in no other way than in visible forms.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

He invited me to a world that wasn't secret, but it was well hidden. You needed a guide. You had to know what to look for, but also how to look. You had to exert yourself to see this world." p 224

Impending death had a way of unexpectedly unearthing the past so that it came together with the present in an unholy coupling.

Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way. But above all, see what it is to still live, to profoundly influence the lives of others after you are gone, by your words.

As if my past life was revealed to be a waste, a gesture in slow motion, because what I considered scarce and precious was in fact plentiful and cheap, and what I counted as rapid progress turned out to be glacially slow. The

She remembered, too, how in her first days in Addis, when things had looked so bleak, so terrifying, so tragic with Melly's death—it was at those moments that God's grace came, and that God's plan was revealed, though it was revealed in His time. "I can't see it, Lord, but I know You can

The voyage of discovery is not about new lands, but having new eyes.

The Model T's loose suspension makes them sway in unison, a rhythm conducive to confession.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

I don't know how to hold this truth, so I kill it, pin its terrible wings down in case, later, no one believes me.

Whenever people say they hate to say something, they actually love to say it.

I hadn't expected much from the place, but I hadn't realized how ugly it would be, either. We

Confidence. That's the word that came to mind, one that I would never before have used to describe any part of my life.

It would have happened eventually, the revelation of her partialness, that she might need something, that her need could be a burden, but it came so suddenly and so starkly. I forgave her everything I had ever blamed her for and tried to love her more without saying anything.

Ty mnie zabi?e?! - ty mnie nauczy?e? czyta?! W pi?knych ksi?gach i pi?knym przyrodzeniu czyta?! Ty dla mnie ziemi? piek?em zrobi?e? (z ?alem i u?miechem) i rajem! (mocniej i ze wzgard?) A to jest tylko ziemia!

There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage

Above the desk there was this framed picture of Jesus. He was reaching his hand out and making this face like he was about to get shot.

I'm reaching toward something in a dark room. But I'm excited.

There was less than I'd expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled 'DEAD SPIDERS.' As if I hadn't always known it was there. As if I wouldn't want to look at dead spiders.

But the real kicker came with the revelation that Denisovan DNA was alive and well in contemporary Melanesians—the indigenous people of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and a scattering of islands off the northeast coast of Australia.

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

Studying Scripture can equip, guide and reveal how to live in life-giving ways that deepen our friendship with God and others.