Quotes About Revelation

It was so simple, but it was a revelation: what you did for yourself was what gave you the power.

When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel Carrie he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes his impression when he came upon a statue of Christ on the cross, hanging there in misery, and he thought If THAT guy ever came back, he probably wouldn't be in a saving mood.

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?

I understood something else, too - that one kiss didn't change a thing. Anyone can give a kiss, after all; a kiss was how Judas Iscariot showed the Romans which one was Jesus.

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show.

People who shine can sometimes see things that are gonna happen, and I think sometimes they can see things that did happen. But they're just like pictures in a book.

We'd all be scared if we knew what was swept under the carpet of each other's minds

My girl has got a bun in her oven, and I guess you know who did the damn cooking.

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show.

Stories are found things, like fossils in the ground... Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered, pre-existing world.

I was struck to my heart and through my heart, knocked clean out of my ordinary life.

Harold glared sullenly at him again, the eyes those of a piggy little boy who wants the whole cookie jar to himself. Ain't he going to be surprised, Stu thought, when he finds out a girl isn't a jar of cookies.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

It came to him (and with the force of a revelation) that life was basically one long SAT test, and instead of four or five choices, you got dozens.

And that's when you realize what the Wagon really is, Lloyd. It's a church with bars on the windows, a church for women and a prison for you.

Across the room was a mirror, and deep down in its silver bubble a single word appeared in green fire and that word was: REDRUM.

A difficult journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.

Searching for what's beyond appearances opens our divine eyes to see the concealed facts in experience.

You yourself are a letter, read and known by all men.

Don't fear opening a Gift God gives you simply because the packaging isn't 't what you expected..we can't know what's in a gift given until it's unwrapped

And is often the case with faith, I thought I was being asked a favor, when in fact I was being given one".

Once you realize life is magic, you will never look upon the world with dimmed eyes again.