Quotes About Revelation

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don't think, 'oh, I love this picture because it's universal.' 'I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.' That's not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It's a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes you.

One of the reasons I didn't trust God is because I didn't know Him until I started studying the Bible, which is where He reveals Himself to humanity.

Maybe it was what I needed too. For all those years I told myself

This was love, and I was astonished by its power.

But I came across a sentence in the book I was reading, HUMAN PERSONALITY, by F. W. H. Myers, which was so illuminating that I put the book aside to consider all the ideas suggested in that one penetrating hypothesis. When I picked up the book again I was a different person.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

it's hidden, even from her." Frey laughed. "We both know that's not true anymore. I wasn't there in person,

its outer Amazon coating was quickly shredded as incoming fire skinned the vehicle alive, revealing the carbyne-reinforced structure underneath. It was like a Terminator whose face had been torn off to reveal the gleaming, indestructible skeleton within.

but once it's fleshed out, you never know. And even if it doesn't quite reach the level of importance of relativity, I think it will be just as surprising to the world as this was

The dead keep their secrets. And in a while we shall be as wise as they." —Alexander Smith "Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?" ? Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet, (modern translation)

Hoyer looked almost amused. "In case you haven't guessed it," he continued, "Bryce Aronson isn't a psychopath. I am.

And you can't be told the essence of a person, anyway. That's something you have to experience

If you turn on the light fast enough, you can see the darkness

Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. 'Meaningless darkness' becomes 'revelatory darkness' when it is confronted by the courage of a thoughtfulness and hope that is born of faith's quest for truth.

The manner in which people and movements behave at the point of victory can be the most revealing thing about them.

I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers." "How's that?" "Because truth is the safest lie.

How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.