Quotes About Revelation

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits-your incubi and succubi; your witches that go by land, by air, and by sea; your wizards of the night and of the day. Have no fear now-we shall find him out and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face!

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been..

I could tell you things about Louis that wouldn't make you wave at him no more

Elle est retrouvée! Quoi? -l'Éternité. C'est la mer allée Avec le soleil.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

We are all innocent to begin with, and this merely means that neither we nor others know the evil of our own nature.

Deny that the Bible is, without any qualifications, the very Word of God, and you are left without any ultimate standard of measurement and without any supreme authority. Grant that the Bible is a Divine revelation and communication of God's own mind and will to men, and you have a fixed starting point from which an advance can be made into the domain of truth.

The outcome of the struggle reveals whether or not we are open to receive and obey fresh light about God, and so grow in the knowledge of the truth.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know. How to un-know, for example, that when people died of stone-dust, their lungs refused to be cremated.

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.

In the next room Baby Kochamma heard the noise and came to find out what it was all about. She saw Grief and Trouble ahead, and secretly, in her heart of hearts, she rejoiced.

Il est capable de mettre au jour la douleur qui est au coeur du bonheur. (p.305)

Sitting next to Tilo, breathing next to her, he felt like an empty house whose locked windows and doors were creaking open a little, to air the ghosts trapped inside it.

only the Small Things are ever said. The Big Things lurk unsaid inside.

Levantó la mirada. Y vio que Chacko había desaparecido y en su lugar había un monstruo.

Later, looking back on the day, Ammu realised that the slightly feverish glitter in her bridegroom's eyes had not been love, or even excitement at the prospect of carnal bliss, but approximately eight large pegs of whisky. Straight. Neat.

It was human history, masquerading as God's Purpose, revealing herself to an under-age audience.

No matter how often I talk to God, he never tells me anything I didn't already know.

Feeling pity for him, I stopped to browse and was stunned to discover what he had on offer. He