Quotes About Revelation

What is sure is what God has revealed. With that we can start our exploration. In our exploring what is sure is that what the Church has defined is true, what the Church has condemned is false: Christ established a Church that could do us this essential service. For most of us, exploration will be only the effort to understand as much as is thus certain. And it is immensely rewarding.

to clarify our notion of mystery: which does not mean a truth that we cannot know anything about, but a truth that we cannot know everything about.

You will never understand Jesus by looking at the God of the Old Testament. You must first look at Jesus and then you will understand the God of the Old Testament.

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart.

I stood leaning on the gates of hell with a cigarette in my mouth, and some trees were on fire and they resembled lilies in their white eternal flames, and I knew it appeared to the others that I was callously watching the world unravel.

If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

You will get to know me better; there are still a number of horrible recesses in me that you don't know.

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man's true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep's Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one's own castle.

Many questions were troubling the explorer, but at the sight of the prisoner he asked only: Does he know his sentence? No, said the officer, eager to go on with his exposition, but the explorer interrupted him: He doesn't know the sentence that has been passed on him? No, said the officer again, pausing a moment as if to let the explorer elaborate his question, and then said: There would be no point in telling him. He'll learn it on his body.

I was reading my destiny inside your eyes without knowing it.

I can never tear myself open wide enough to people to reveal everything and so frighten them away.

Du kannst jemanden, der die Augen verbunden hat, noch so sehr aufmuntern, durch das Tuch zu starren, er wird doch niemals etwas sehen; erst wenn man ihm das Tuch abnimmt, kann er sehen.

Odandan ç?kman gerekmez, masanda oturmaya devam et ve dinle.. Dinleme bile, sadece bekle..bekleme bile, gerçekten sakin ve yaln?z ol. Dünya özgürce sunacakt?r kendini sana..maskesinden s?yr?lmak için baÅŸka seçeneÄŸi yok, huÅŸu içinde yuvarlanacakt?r ayaklar?n?n dibine..

Enlightenment comes to even the dimmest. It begins around the eyes, and it spreads outward from there- a sight that might tempt one to lie down under the harrow oneself.

Enlightenment comes to the most dull-witted. It begins around the eyes. From there it radiates.

Ciertamente, perros, pero no para morir aquí, sino para llegar allá, a la verdad, para salir de este mundo de mentiras, donde no se encuentra a nadie de quien obtener la verdad, tampoco de mi, ciudadano innato de la mentira

Milena birisi yüzünüzü iki elinin aras?na s?k??t?r?p , doÄŸruca gözlerinizin içine bakmal? ki bu kiÅŸinin gözlerinde kendinizi gördükten sonra bir daha yazd???n?z ÅŸeyleri akl?n?zadan bile geçiremeyeceksiniz.

Não ouças sequer, espera simplesmente. Não esperes, sequer, sê absolutamente solitário, absolutamente silencioso. Então o mundo irá oferecer-se a ti para se fazer desmascarar, não pode agir de outro modo; sob o teu encanto, desenrolará os seus anéis a teus pés.

So now you know what else existed in the world outside of you, before you knew only about yourself!

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one's own castle.

Open yourself. Let the human person come forth. Breathe in the air and the silence.

It is not necessary for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don't even listen; just wait. Don't even wait; be utterly still and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it cannot do otherwise; it will writhe before you in ecstasy.