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Quotes About Revelation

Thought you weren't coming with him," Wade said. She darted a glance at him, but he was looking over her head. "Thought you didn't care." "I don't." "Good.
~ Denise Hunter
What's going on behind those green eyes?" "So much." "Tell me." It
~ Denise Hunter
Why don't you just tell Meridith who you are, man?" "Because she thinks the uncle is irresponsible and self-absorbed." Jake missed. Wyatt snorted. "She tell you that?" Jake scowled. Wyatt put up another shot, this one from the left side—Jake's weak spot. The ball swished through the net. "Besides, after I've been there all these weeks incognito . . . I don't think it's going to go over well." Meridith
~ Denise Hunter
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
~ Denise Levertov
Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.
~ Denise Levertov
When a child grows old enough to know J.R.R. Tolkien was just staring at a typewriter, the truth can be a wounding exposé.
~ Dennis Cooper
when you see everything, you realize that nothing means anything
~ Dennis Cooper
John's call now leads directly into the heart of the drama revealed in the visions on I'attnos (12-22): the cosmic conflict between God, the heavenly woman, and her son/groom and the dragon, the beasts, and the harlot. Everything that precedes Revelation 12 is preliminary to this central drama, preparing us to see our daily struggles as part of the great conflict of the ages.
~ Dennis E. Johnson
The Book of Revelation wages war on the reductionism that chokes awe.
~ Dennis E. Johnson
The epistolary structure of the prologue and epilogue reinforces the principle that Revelation is Jesus' public correspondence with his churches in first-century Asia. Its message addressed the challenges confronting their life of faith, just as 1 Corinthians spoke to the issues confronting the church in Corinth
~ Dennis E. Johnson
John's vision of the One sitting on the throne and of the Lamb is permeated with their supreme worthiness (Rev. 4:11; 5:9-10, 12; cf. 4:8; 5:13) and therefore by the awe of all who see them.
~ Dennis E. Johnson
Thus the body opens with a vision of the heavenly Bridegroom, the Son of Man, and it closes with a vision of the heavenly bride, the new Jerusalem. Toward the end of the body are the contrasting visions of the judgment of the harlot Babylon (17:1-19:111) and the joy of the bride Jerusalem (21:9-22:9). Thus 22:6-9 is the climax of the body and the opening of the epilogue-a literary interweaving of themes characteristic of Revelation elsewhere.
~ Dennis E. Johnson
Revelation is, as its Greek title implies, apocalyptic-not in the modern sense of "catastrophic" but in the ancient sense of "unveiling, disclosing" in vivid, visual form the invisible realities and forces that drive and therefore explain the course of observable historical events.
~ Dennis E. Johnson
You cannot understand any individual passage in Revelation unless you understand the book as a whole, but you cannot understand the hook as a whole unless you understand its individual passages.
~ Dennis E. Johnson
She couldn't put into words how desparately she wanted to know what had happened to Sarah. But she'd suddenly realized that Sarah was not the only one who had lost her memory of what happened when she was a little girl. Hundreds of thousands of people had lost their memories of what had happened to them ...
~ Denny Taylor
It occurred to Rosie that she couldn't hide either, even though the truth had been hidden from her. Now she was out from the shadows, out in the open for the first time in her life, standing in the harsh light.
~ Denny Taylor
Honest and Truthful writing comes straight from the Heart, and it reveals everything that even reality obscures.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
She remembered who she was, and it was the game-changer.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Truth will set you free, but before setting you free, it will torture you beyond your imagination.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Christ! He thought we even have a male stripper. What's he going to do, throw his thong at the vampires?
~ Derek Gunn
You say to the boy open your eyes When he opens his eyes and sees the light You make him cry out. Saying O Blue come forth O Blue arise O Blue ascend O Blue come in
~ Derek Jarman
Found something?" "No, sorry. I thought I had, but, no, it turned out to be, uh… more floor.
~ Derek Landy
Skulduggery stood among the ruins of what had once been a sofa. Valkyrie raised an eyebrow. 'I was trying to make up the sofa bed so you could get some rest,' he explained, and pointed to the second sofa across the room. 'Unfortunately, it would appear that that is the sofa bed, and this, apparently, is just a sofa.
~ Derek Landy
Wait, do they even know I'm coming with you?" "No. But they like surprises. Almost always.
~ Derek Landy