Quotes About Revelation

How strange that the bully, unmasked, is always awash in self-pity.

You can't hide from your egg, Max.

Willow shook his head. If he'd picked her lock a few days earlier, if he'd peeked into her closet, he'd have known then, and four people would have lived.

If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em. I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry.

At the chinks in the drawn blinds, daylight peered like a spy.

Only the blind had not seen Terry Neville.

As a book for sight, Revelation becomes a frustration; as a book for faith, it becomes a joy and a comfort.

Thus, an aspect of man's revolt against maturity and against life is his revolt against knowledge. Whereas the natural man may seek knowledge as a substitute for God, and as a means of becoming God (Gen. 3: 5), he soon turns from knowledge itself because it is inescapably revelational of God.

Revelation is something communicated from infinite agency or reality to the finite mind. But (in Farrer's picture) this is not a matter of God just interrupting the process of the world to 'insert' something alien into the gap; it happens as a result of what happens in the world of finite agents or substances, as these finite realities are modified in their relations to one another, drawn into newly meaningful shapes.

W isn't Wilhelmina: it stand for Walt! It's a sign specially for me ...

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

remember that people need only be told as much of the truth as they are entitled to know

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

Love's secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers — "Here I am!"

A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into Light.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

And then you suddenly cried, and turned away.

That's what birthdays were. Days when you found out where you stood. Who was on your side and who wasn't. Nothing to do with how old you were.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

strange, how lovers cannot bear that the world should not know their love

Almost always, it's the unexpected that delights us, that takes us by the throat and gives us a good shaking, leaving us gaping in wonder.