Quotes About Revelation

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

I believe the poem is a sacramental act, pure devotion to whatever may be revealed only through the music of intuition. The dance of the intellect, the dance of wild imagination, illuminates what cannot otherwise be known.

set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ" (1 Pet. 1:13). This

the Old Testament must always be read in light of the New. I never read such Old Testament texts without immediately asking, "Does the New Testament shed additional light on how I am to understand the nature of such promises and their recipients?

God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.

Dolly's joy over the move was short-lived. She learned Charles Short had proposed to Kitty. And Kitty had accepted. They would be living both in Debhatta and in Calcutta. Dolly was dazed. "How did I not know?" she asked William and became more outspoken than ever. "How I detest India!" William

Ouch." Mr. Bell grabs his arm. Blood darkens his sleeve. "That's a bit sore, Mardellion. And not entirely fair." The tiny bombs that parents bury under their child's skin take years to explode.

Fionna loved the dark, for it lit her mind, her muse; it was truly her inspiration. It fired her imagination as nothing else could. She had never feared the depths of night, not even as a child. She reveled in it, particularly on those moonless nights, when all the world lay closed and sleeping, while she lay awake and dreaming- of legends and myths, and stories yet to be told. That was when her mind came alive, when she came alive.

It's weird to hear this again - to hear how I was perceived by people before they got to know me. Some of the girls thought I was a bitch - aloof, distant - but now they see the truth.

No one could have predicted this, but this is how the world works. One moment, you are stuck, and then the moment expands, as if God were forcing it open with his pretty bare hands, and you find yourself in another dimension, and you are still you, but the world around you has suddenly changed colours.

Words are clothes that thoughts wear

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors exist.

Inside the Mouse, surprise opened like a wound over the inevitable.

Look, when you come up short against the edge like that, when you discover the earth really is round, when you find out you've killed your father and married your mother after all, or when you look at the horizon and see something, like that, rising — man, you have to have some sort of human reaction: laugh, cry, sing, something! You can't just lie down and take a nap.

And for a moment (and only a moment), it was as if a gap between two absolute and unquestionably separated columns or encampments of the world had suddenly revealed itself as illusory; that what I had assumed two was really one; and that the glacial solidity of the boundary I'd been sure existed between them was as permeable as shimmering water, as shifting light.

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.

Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

There is a pivotal moment in life when you realize who you are and the world around you is no longer what it seems. Your reality has changed forever....