Quotes About Revelation

you trace a finger over my scar and uncloak me like a timid star...

the answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ...

you merely look at me and I want to confess, but don't - I've buried my heart under the floor boards, but you always dig it up...

you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!...

I hide you inside me because I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind...

Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape from a nail sliding under a fence to see you...

I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...

though he is a Lamb, he has wrath in him, and when the great day of his wrath comes in any form on earth, there is no standing before him; and how much less when he shall appear as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and shall be revealed from heaven in flaming fire; then kings and freemen will call to the rocks to fall upon them, and hide them from him;

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun.

I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.

If God were intent on making his revelation correspond to science, we have to ask which science. We

We gain nothing by bringing God's revelation into accordance with today's science. In contrast, it makes perfect sense that God communicated his revelation to his immediate audience in terms they understood.

The idea that people think with their hearts describes physiology in ancient terms for the communication of other matters; it is not revelation concerning physiology. Consequently we need not try to come up with a physiology for our times that would explain how people think with their entrails. But a serious concordist would have to do so to save the reputation of the Bible. Concordists believe the Bible must agree—be in concord with—all the findings of contemporary science.

There is a reason God has alerted us to "look up" for the coming of the Lord.

Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, / Nor have entered into the heart of man / The things which God has prepared for those who love Him" (1 Cor. 2:9).

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Sometimes what you're looking for is right under your nose and you don't even know it.

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Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem [From shadows and symbols into the truth]!

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again — I dwell among the people."

But one aspect of Revelation must not be allowed to exclude or to obscure another; and Christianity is dogmatical, devotional, practical all at once; it is esoteric and exoteric; it is indulgent and strict; it is light and dark; it is love, and it is fear.

Incarnation' does not originally mean (as it tends to today in some theologies of history, and in some kinds of Anglican today) that God took all of human nature as it was, put his seal of approval on it and thereby ratified nature as revelation. The point is just the opposite; that God broke through the borders of man's definition of what is human, and gave a new, formative definition in Jesus.