Quotes About Revelation

Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.

Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.

The Bible is God's love letter to us

I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

I don't care. I'm just gonna smoke. I'm just gonna totally smoke. I'll finish these, go to the store and get a brand new pack, smoke the shit out of that one.

The other dolls sat upon the shelf and looked straight before them, for it would never do to let grown-up men know that dolls were really alive.

To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

Their eyes met, and in those few silent moments, he told her everything. He told her that she was the most astonishing thing he had ever encountered. He told her that she haunted his waking hours, and that every feeling, every experience he had in his life up to that point was flat and unimportant to the enormity of this. He told her he loved her.

I felt everything more intensely, saw everything as if a filter had been removed.

He talked to her in the way that people tell lifelong secrets to fellow passengers in railway carriages.

I tried to show him that he was the answer to a question I hadn't even known I had been asking.

Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.

It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched out ahead of you.

But when the lift doors closed behind us, he pulled me toward him, took my face in his hands and kissed me again. "Was that to stop me talking?" I said when he released me. "No. That was because I've wanted to do that for four long weeks and I plan to do it as many times as I can until I go home again." "That's a good line." "Took me most of the flight.

I had been wrong when I said Liza McCullen wasn't beautiful: when she smiled she was stunning.