Quotes About Revelation

We have built so many toxic constructs, we cannot see through the latticework. We have built so many mirrors, there are no windows to shatter.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Sometimes you get a sense of when the truth of things will not be revealed by microscopes.

Looking for hidden meaning in these papers was the same as looking for hidden meaning in the natural world around us. If it existed, it could be activated only by the eye of the beholder.

The thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Reaction, and they didn't care what it was so long as it inflicted some kind of discomfort.

There might be life, right under our noses. But there's always been life right under our noses – we're just too blind to see it. These fucking questions – they don't matter.

I aimed my flashlight at the ground—and leapt back, gasping. Incredibly, a human face seemed to be rising out of the earth.

But then what? What occurs after revelation and paralysis? Either death or a slow and certain thawing. A returning to the physical world.

The story that meant the end arrived late one night.

For a time neither the man nor the woman could speak. There was nothing in their humdrum, habit-smoothed tilling of the soil and washing of pots and pans to prepare them for a scene like this- a moonlight barn, a strange dead man, and that dead man;s son babbling of brooks and squirrels and playing jigs on a fiddle for a dirge. At last, however, Simeon found his voice.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages, which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don't see them.

His breathing was labored. His eyes were closed. But I was convinced that he was seeing everything. That he was seeing the truth in all things.

It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised.

I will unravel here.

She stood, as it were, with her face to God and her back to the people, waiting to receive His word for the 'chose people.' She had a vision of holy living. She would not deviate from that no matter how well-established, rational, and practical the ways of older missions seemed to be.

A few clear pronouncements on one side and a few honest questions on the other had, in a matter of minutes, shown me that life was not going to be as simple, ever again, as I had thought.

God will see to it that we understand as much truth as we are willing to obey.

Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you

There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed.

I think love is all about risk. And reinvention. And honesty and revelation. And if you don't have that in a relationship, you don't grow, and you don't stay true to what you started together.

Sometimes serendipity is just intention, unmasked.

Getting lost is the only way to find what you didn't know you were looking for.

It seemed there was a leak in my life.