Quotes About Revelation

You'd taken my disbelief into Your love, keeping them to show me later, so that we could both laugh.

You talk too easily,' the Boy said. 'Talk?' Mr Prewitt said. 'I could shake the world. Let them put me in the dock if they like. I'll give them—revelation. I've sunk so deep I carry—' he was shaken by an enormous windy self-esteem—he hiccupped twice—'the secrets of the sewer.

I loved a man, she said. I told you—a man doesn't alter because you find out more about him. He's still the same man.

Love is not wrong, but love should be happy and open -- it is only wrong when it is secret, unhappy . . . It can be more unhappy than anything but the loss of God. It is the loss of god. You don't need penance, my child, you have suffered quite enough.

Julgava ser possível conceber um qualquer Deus sem relação connosco, bastante vago, amorfo e cósmico, ao qual eu fizera uma promessa e que me retribuíra o prometido - algo que do vago penetrava na vida humana concreta, como um denso vapor deslocando-se por entre as cadeiras e as paredes.

He was no longer an orphan, but finding out who his real father was made him feel as if he were standing naked in an icy wind, at night, with no shelter - a wind that would never stop blowing until the day he died

A secret face only the dreamers can see. Awake, you can't see the truths beneath the surface.

No man or spirit, not even Satan, can precisely predict future events. No other religious writing outside the Bible dares to make thousands of detailed predictions centuries before their fulfillment. Only God, through His written, "God-breathed" Word, dares to do that. The phenomenon of hundreds of fulfilled prophecies conclusively proves that God has revealed Himself through the Holy Scriptures.

You never know what it is like to be a child, even as a child. You have to have one of your own, and then it comes to you. You understand for the first time.

It went okay. Kaye shifted her eyes to one side and shrugged. Rachel Browning tried to pull down my shorts. Did she succeed? Cross asked. Got them down to my curlies, Kaye said. The young men looked ready to appear shocked, should Cross be. Cross laughed. Jesus, Kaye. I never know what I'm going to hear from you. You drive my PR folks nuts.

If a truth is dangerous, he said, then perhaps it is not true enough.   The

Truth is a hunter. Truth is what kills you when you give up the lies.

Who are you and why are you here?' 'I'm here to kill you.' 'Oh. I knew there was something about you I liked.

The thing about kicking open a door to the past is that sometimes what's behind it comes out under its own power.

I've sometimes wondered whether human beings are like the universe itself, where 95 percent of what surrounds us is dark matter, and cannot be seen. The only way black holes can be detected is by the behavior of what's around them—light and matter being distorted by immense forces within the collapsing star. Have I seen and yet not seen certain events that hint at deep

Every son eventually learns his daddy has feet of clay. You just happen to have a father of singular rectitude, so it took until you were forty-five. That doesn't make it any less painful.

The naïveté of human beings is truly breathtaking

were there when I got home, I could blurt out the truth

But now I understand something I did not before;: that the happiness of my childhood was bought with the pain of a black boy who had hurt no one.

diffident voice. "You're not going to believe this.

The Secret History.

Jesus asked, "But what about you? … Who do you say I am?" (Matt. 16:15 NIV).

said when he came back inside. "I was telling Elan before you came home

It's hard to unbraid a life with a man that you believe in.