Quotes About Revelation

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.

Dieu n'a pu créer qu'en se cachant. Autrement il n'y aurait que lui.

Impossible de pardonner à qui nous a fait du mal, si ce mal nous abaisse. Il faut penser qu'il ne nous a pas abaissés, mais a révélé notre vrai niveau.

The gospel is designed to deliver us from this lie. For it reveals that behind and manifested in the coming of Christ and his death for us is the love of a Father who gives us everything he has: first his Son to die for us and then his Spirit to live within us.27

Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.

Sam was so pleased that he asked the man to lunch, and telephoned to him often, to the end that the man, who had regarded Sam as one of his gods, saw that he was merely a solitary and common human being, and despised him and was uninterested.

you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all. -Sherlock Holmes

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

O título [da peça Vladimir Maiakóvski, do autor de mesmo nome] escondia uma revelação brilhantemente simples, a de que o poeta não é o autor, mas o objeto da poesia lírica, dirigindo-se ao mundo na primeira pessoa. O título designava não o autor, mas o conteúdo. Boris Pasternak

Un petit échantillon

One of the most insistent messages from my inner voice in the last few years reaffirms the feminist revelation that among the myriad hoaxes of men, the biggest and most basic is what we are socialized to perceive as real.

Is your life ruined? Is it such a disaster for people to know the truth about you?

See how I stopped mid-sentence? I can do it too. When I don't necessarily want to reveal the exact thought I'm having.

I collapse on my pillows in relief, my heart pounding. Thank fuck. I don't have a child. And

With one person knowing a movie star and not telling the other

I'm suddenly seeing the other side of me; the side I thought had disappeared forever. All this time, all my stuff was here. Suddenly I have a memory of Eric's words, that first time I asked him about Jon. 'You'd trust Jon with your life.' Maybe that's what I did. Trusted him with my life.

What I've learned since being out in the dating field is: A lot of men are really boring. Or else they're not boring, they're super-fun and exciting, but they have four other secret girlfriends they never mentioned....

How terrible-- to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day.

And if you find I've lied, from this day on call the prophet blind.

Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.

TEIRESIAS: You have your eyes but see not where you are in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with. Do you know who your parents are? Unknowing you are enemy to kith and kin in death, beneath the earth, and in this life.