Quotes About Revelation

Just once I knew what life was for.

I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.

DON'T ASK THE QUESTIONS IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE ANSWERS.

There is a way the truth hits you, both hard and gentle at the same time. It punches you in the stomach as it puts its loving arm around your shoulder. Yes, I am terrible to behold, the truth says. But you suspected it all along, didn't you? And isn't better, now that you know? Now, at least, it all makes sense.

This is what happens on journeys—the things you find are not necessarily the things you had gone looking for.

Something rose in Oscar's chest, like a flower blossoming all at once. It grew until it filled him and threatened to spill over everywhere. The words [he] spoke touched a longing so deep Oscar hadn't even known it was there.

Wie Annie Schmidt altijd als lief en aardig heeft ervaren, zal zijn mening grondig moeten herzien.

Pasijuntat tikras, kad paslapties raktas guli kur nors skalbykl?je arba tarp knygos lap?: daugiau nebeieškokit. Dažnai koduotos žinut?s slepiasi ne skalbykl?se, o širdyse. Tetr?ksta tik kodo, kad gal?tume iššifruoti.

The most horrifying thing about art is its honesty

We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might like what you find.

WHAT HAPPENED TO IGGY ONCE HE GOT HOME

Sometimes Felix seemed like an empty house, but he wasn't really. It was just that he kept all his possessions in a locked room. And when, once every few years, the door cracked open for a moment, she felt strangely moved to see herself within.

Were it possible that God should now reveal Himself to us as He is, the Being of Whose Nature we can form no conception, I believe that we should remain as ignorant as we are at present, from the want of faculties to receive that revelation: the Divine language might sound in our ears, but it would be as unintelligible as the roar of the thunder-clap, or the moan of the earthquake, or the whisper of the wind to the leaves of the cedar-tree.

Even the outer God must hide, ere the Inner God can manifest; the cry of agony of the Crucified must be wrung from the tortured lips; "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" precedes the realisation of the God within.

It takes time to see the desert; you have to keep looking at it. When you've looked long neough, you realise the blank wastes of sand and rock are teemming with life. Just as you can keep looking at a person and suddenly realise that the way you see them has completely changed: from being a stranger, they've gradually revealed themselves as someone with a wealth of complexities and surprising subtleties that you're growing to love.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?

Once I start trying out the text, once it appears before me in public characters, I shall be through with innocence.

El hecho de que la forma en la que yo viví la experiencia del aborto, la clandestinidad, forme parte del pasado no me parece un motivo válido para que se siga ocultando.

il y a un chimpanzé sur l'autel, il se révèle ensuite être un ours.

9 h 25. Je le savais, mais tant que les choses ne sont pas dites (ou écrites : en littérature, sans détours, ni allusions), elles n'existent pas.

Après le rasage, mon oncle a tiré le corps, l'a tenu levé pour qu'on lui enlève la chemise qu'il portait ces derniers jours et la remplacer par une propre. La tête retombait en avant, sur la poitrine nue couverte de marbrures. Pour la première fois de ma vie, j'ai vu le sexe de mon père. Ma mère l'a dissimulé rapidement avec les pans de la chemise propre, en riant un peu : « Cache ta misère, mon pauvre homme.

Plus tard, seule, dans ce même endroit, je me masturbe. C'est dans cette cave que, en juin 52, et à cet endroit précis, en face de la porte de séparation avec la pièce suivante, mon père a entraîné ma mère pour la tuer. Maintenant, trois hommes, aucune femme, savent cela. Je les ai aimés tous les trois. Cet aveu était le signe de mon amour.

En medio de un torbellino desenfrenado, he experimentado por primera vez una especie de dicha inaudita y he pensado en voz alta puesto que he dicho "soy feliz".