Quotes About Revelation

Hiding your true nature is a kind of voluntary death.

No light, but rather darkness visible.

Truth… never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.

The palpable obscure.

The Oracles are dumb.

Suspense in news is torture.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

What is dark within me, illumine.

God doesn't need to come down upon a mountain, for the mountain itself is the revelation. We only have to look at it and we will know how we should live.

All religions die of one disease - that of being found out

But the idea that this world is not self-explanatory and that revelation from beyond it is necessary to understand it is profoundly distasteful to us humans. It means that we are not in control of our own destiny or able to make our own disposition of things for our own benefit. This thought, the thought that we cannot supply our ultimate needs for ourselves, that we are dependent on someone or something utterly beyond us, is deeply troublesome.

We have sometimes escaped from grave dangers not by any wisdom or foresight of our own, but by the intervention of unforeseen circumstances. So both the revelation of Scripture and our own individual experiences confirm the wisdom and good providence of God. He watches over His people from the earliest moment of their lives. He overrules and guards them through all their blind wanderings and leads them in a way that they know not.

Jesus did not tell parables to confirm well-known truths, but rather to shatter well-known truths.

When composing a story, withhold the essential information—do not mention whatever it is that causes the characters to act as they do.

It's time to chip away the plaster, pull down the ask, peel off the bandages, and allow the miracle of life to shine brightly.

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience...

No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.

Revelation births creativity.

Deep conflicts are stressful and painful. At worst, they are violent and destructive. Yet at the same time, they create some of the most intense spiritual encounters we experience. Conflict opens a path, a holy path, toward revelation and reconciliation.

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice.

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.

I will give them a heart to know that I am The Lord." Jeremiah 24:7 He gives it at new birth, then again and again.

All the fullness of God is in Jesus (Colossians 2:9). All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in Jesus (Colossians 2:3). Beyond what the Old Testament told us, whatever we need to know about God and how he relates to our lives we learn from what we hear and see in God's final, decisive Word, Jesus Christ.