Quotes About Revelation

Well, I haven't really anything to eat at home, I began, but then stopped, as I realised that a dreary revelation of the state of one's larder was hardly the way to respond to an invitation to dinner.

I wasn't really making fun of you,' said Jane as they settled themselves in the carriage. 'I was seeing you as a human being for the first time.

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

You can be with a man for twenty years and never really know who he truly is. Then again, you can meet a man and know everything about him in an instant.

We are all mad at three in the morning

Beauty warms, and Truth illumines.

To consider reason to be hostile to revelation is to regard God as divided against Himself, labouring to destroy His own work. Reason is a gift of God and faith is a gift of God. Each has its own sphere.

In vain is it argued that we are to give up our private judgment to a revelation; we can only admit the authority of the revelation by an act of our individual judgment.

Scholasticism is the least incomplete, when, starting from revelation, it rests unshaken on its divine foundation, and never deserts the formulae of absolute verity.

If you knew the meaning of light you would yourself be a light in a dark place.

The Rose of Life to us reveals Her hidden petals without shame, For in our questing faith she feels The love that melts the seven seals Of the Eternal Name.

There is a sore spot in the heart of Truth, and no balm can ever heal it.

I think a great book--leaving aside other qualities such as narrative power, characterization, style, and so on--is a book that describes the world in a way that has not been done before; and that is recognized by those who read it as telling new truths.

The image we produce is the self evident one of revelation..that can be understood by anyone who will look at it without the nostalgic glasses of history

Boy, just look at the soul shining through my eyes! It's like a goddamned flower!

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.

He wondered if all kids-if normal kids-had this moment of epiphany, this sudden sensation of understanding that their parents weren't gods, weren't even kings. They were just people.

I know it doesn't matter what I've promised because I will not live to have the conversation in the first place. I'm so good at pretending. I'm a liar. I've lied to everyone. To every person in my life, to everyone I know. I've never told the truth. I've lied to them all. [...] Everyone keeps saying that if I could remember, it would help. That's what they've said all along. And the thing is this: I remember doing it. I remember every single bit of it.

I suddenly do want to. I don't know why. I don't understand it. I'm not even sniffing around the edges of understanding it, but suddenly I want more than anything in the world to tell her. [...] I want to tell her because I realize now that it's true: I love her and I need her to know, and if I don't say it now, I'll never say it, and it has to come from me.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

In Jesus, God really becomes a mystery, makes himself known as the unknown, speaks as the eternally Silent One.

Indeed, just as light makes manifest both itself and darkness, so truth is the standard both of itself and falsity.