Quotes About Revelation

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

Discovering that one is loved in return really ought to disenchant the lover with the beloved. 'What? this person is modest enough to love even you? Or stupid enough? Or-or-

In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man!

Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.

There are many more languages than one imagines. And man reveals himself much more often than he wishes. So many things that speak! But there are always so few listeners, so that man, so to speak, only chatters in a void when he engages in confessions. He wastes his truths just as the sun wastes its light. Isn't it too bad that the void has no ears?

Honest things, like honest men, do not carry their reasons in their hands like that. It is indecent to show all five fingers. What must first be proved is worth little.

And even in woman's conscious love, there is still always surprise and lightning and night, along with the light.

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up. ?Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

It was odd how old buildings had secret spaces in them that weren't really hidden but were never noticed;

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.

The Scriptures are not merely a record of historical events that have passed. They constitute for every age a revelation of God's mind and will to each individual.

Divinity is always where one least expects to find it.

A man's love decreases with the revelation of defects; a woman's does not. A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults. There is something divine in that kind of love, because God loves us in spite of all defects, our failings, and our sins. A man may stand for the Justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

God spoke to the Gentiles through nature and philosophers; to the Jews, through prophecies.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

By two o'clock in the morning they had each drunk three brandies, and he knew, in truth, that he was not the man she was looking for, and he was glad to know it. Bravo, lionlady, he said when he left. We have killed the tiger.

and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

Le silence nous enveloppait toujours. non pas oppressant comme lorsqu'il dit l'absence de vie, mais tout gonflé d'une révélation heureuse qui est sur le point d'être faite.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.