Quotes About Revelation

Lately whenever I'd scratched somebody's surface I'd turned up a ghost story.

I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.

I looked hard out the window and understood suddenly that what I saw was full of color. A watercolor wash of summer light lay on the Catalina Mountains. The end of a depression is that clear: it's as if you have been living underwater, but never realized it until you came up for air.

Here comes Moses tromping down off Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.

I knew it was only shadow and the angle of the sun, but still it's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

With these startling honesties glinting up at us from history's broken mirror, it strikes me that this is worth shouting from the rooftops: We could be wrong this time, again. The enemy may not be exactly what we think. It may be a force that resides in many quarters, including inside our skin, in our very words, the questions we frame, the things we love most, the things we can't live without. Our greatest dread may be our salvation.

Sóli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

TELL ALL THE TRUTH but tell it slant, says my friend Emily Dickinson.

But a thing grows teeth once it's put into words. Now I felt that worm digging

half the town would claim they'd seen it coming, just because they thrived on downfalls of any sort.

I felt as though I had a blind date with destiny, and someone had heard a rumor that destiny looked like Christopher Reeve.

What a revelation, that I could carry my own parcel like any woman here!

Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comics.

That is so. Science directs us to study our maker's creation, but his thoughts on its purpose are only his to reveal.

When a house no longer provided shelter, it turned out to be worth exactly the sum of its parts.

Well, Pat, you aren't going to believe this…

Your story must evoke in you a sense of wonder, a voice that whispers to the reader behind the words, Can you believe this? You must also be a little scared of the story on some level. Writing it has to cost you something. At the very least, there must be the possibility that, writing it, you might discover something you don't want to know.

a photojournalist. Eventually she had come to understand

the canvas the first time I saw

ask Bill Binney, or Thomas Drake, or Chelsea Manning, or Diane Roark, or Coleen Rowley, or Jeffrey Sterling, or Thomas Tamm, or Russell Tice, or Kirk Wiebe. And look what they'd done to John Kiriakou—for exposing torture

That was the dirty little secret of 9/11

Music reveals a personal past of which, until then, each of us was unaware, moving us to lament misfortunes we never suffered and wrongs we did not commit. —Jorge Luis Borges

I had come to the canyon with expectations. I wanted to see snowy egrets flying against the black schist at dusk; I saw blue-winged teal against the green waters at dawn. I had wanted to hear thunder rolling in the thousand-foot depths; I heard the guttural caw of four ravens…what any of us had come to see or do fell away. We found ourselves at each turn with what we had not imagined.

If one wants to insist that God inspired the very words of scripture, what would be the point if we don't have the very words of scripture?