Quotes About Revelation

For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any books however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him

Any man then who would profit by the Scriptures, must hold first of all and firmly that the teaching of the law and the prophets came to us not by the will of man, but as dictated by the Holy Spirit.

Christ is indeed presented to all, but God opens the eyes of the elect alone, and enables them by faith to seek after him. The

whenever God revealed himself to be seen by the fathers, he never appeared as he is in himself but as he could be understood by human minds. Since

that there is nothing put forth in Scripture which it is not profitable to know.

Without the Word, there is nothing left for us but darkness.

the Bible was to him the vehicle of God's power first, and secondly of our knowledge of Him.

Mohammed and the pope have this principle of religion in common: they pretend that Scripture does not contain perfect doctrine, and that they receive a higher revelation from the Spirit. The

Because of the great distance between us and his heavenly glory, he himself came down to us through the Word. This

Christ cannot be seen except in the spiritual life which the world does not possess. No

For he contrasts   shadows with revelation, and absence with manifestation.

we must seek pure knowledge from the Law and the Prophets, in order that we may not be driven away from Christ by falsehoods invented by men.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

It was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, "I drank too much last night.

We do not tell God who he is and what he is like; he tells us.

One is denying the revelation of God in Jesus Christ if one tries to be "Christian" without seeing and recognizing the world in Christ.34

Sense of Wonder (...) may be defined as a shift in perspective so that the reader, having been made suddenly aware of the true scale of an event or venue, responds to the revelation with awe.

An edifice is more than a house and less than a City, though it may resemble a house from the outside and a city from within. From without, an edifice may seem self-contained and finite; from within, it may well extend beyond lines of vision, both spatially and temporally. In almost every possible way, edifices manifest a principle central to the description of most physical structures in fantasy: there is always more to them than meets the eye.

My eyes were trying to tell me something that my brain refused to believe. They made their point. I was looking straight into another pair of eyes, human eyes, but large, flat, luminous. I have seen such eyes among the nocturnal creatures, which creep out under the artificial blue moonlight in the zoo.

He will say less than he means, and conceal more than he reveals.

Okay," I said hoarsely as the blood left my head and headed south for the winter.

it had been a small consecration, a minor epiphany, and no more

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. —Andrew Wyeth (1917