Quotes About Revelation

You could've at least let me know you weren't dead by the way. I was actually kind of sad about that." "That's a pretty incredible sentiment, coming from you.

JOH! Thank God I found you.""I have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them?

Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future.

Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)

Science fiction is using an exploration of where we might be, to explore where it seems like we are heading, in order to reveal exactly where we are.

If the lies don't kill you, the truth will.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

Light is the ultimate messenger of the universe.

I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile. Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!

First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.

A lot of people are actually surprised when I do open up my mouth and smile a little bit, and crack a joke and drink a beer.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband's innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah who discloses to a stranger, discloses to her lover, the mysteries of her husband's strength or weakness. What seems to me treason is, not that women give themselves, but that a woman is prone, when she does so, to justify herself to herself by uncovering her husband's nakedness, exposing it to the inquisitive and scornful gaze of a stranger.

The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.

up till now I have retained a deep conviction that a person is nowhere revealed so clearly as when he eats.

The universe was filled with secrets, and he understood now that one of the biggest was that no one needed to know them all.

We are thus offered a fundamental and joyfully liberating release from our addiction to searching for love from outside, by realizing the truth that the most powerful experience of love is available within us, simply waiting for us to discover it. And it is in our own souls that love moves us toward our deepest nature, acting as the fuel for unfoldment and revelation and dissolving what separates us from the truth of what we are.

The fact is that there are many skeletons in the Tower's cupboard.

The stunning beauty of the truth lies beyond the veil of habits.

In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions and learning how to spell the meaning of life-experiences backwards, some of us discover how the scattered syllables form a single phrase.

The surest way of misunderstanding revelation is to take it literally, to imagine that God spoke to the prophet on a long-distance telephone. Yet most of us succumb to such fancy, forgetting that the cardinal sin in thinking about ultimate issues is literal-mindedness.

Replete is the world with a spiritual radiance, replete with sublime and marvelous secrets. But a small hand held against the eye hides it all," said the Baal Shem.

God does not reveal Himself; he only reveals His way. Judaism does not speak of God's self-revelation, but of the revelation of His teaching for man. The Bible reflects God's revelation of His relation to history, rather than of a revelation of His very Self. Even His will or His wisdom is not completely expressed through the prophets. Prophecy is superior to human wisdom, and God's love is superior to prophecy. This spiritual hierarchy is explicitly stated by the Rabbis.

For Sinai consisted of both a divine proclamation and a human perception. It was a moment in which God was not alone.