Quotes About Revelation

Seek not the best, the best is better hidden.

Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display.... The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

Christ is indeed the center of God's revelation, but for that very reason cannot be the startingpoint.

God reveals Himself in nature and history, but the study of these is not necessarily theology, since both can be studied simply as they are in themselves apart from their revelational implications.

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

It's also probably fair to say she was probably too young at thirteen to innocently open the drawer under his bed and come across a leather gas mask type thing with a leather dick attached where she presumed a nose should be, along with associated whips, gels, handcuffs and other unexplainable objects Unfortunately, once seen, never unseen and it was a lesson for her at a young age that you never know people until you've been through their drawers and computer history

except unlike you I don't have any disturbing psychological problems, Dom that's because you haven't dug deep enough to find them

Devant le mystère il convient de s'ouvrir et de se dévoiler tout entier afin de forcer le mystère à se dévoiler à son tour.

God will speak to you— not that you will hear audible words in your ears, but words that you will clearly understand in your heart.

truth only comes when you're ready to face it!

Denn die einen sind im Dunkeln Und die anderen sind im Licht. Und man sieht nur die im Lichte Die im Dunkeln sieht man nicht.

And the light shineth in the darkness.

La verità è figlia del tempo e non dell'autorità.

To all men alike, good and evil, is laid open Nature's revelation of morality, as exemplified in the highest human lives.

If men would try to read nature instead of revelation, if they would study natural laws and leave revealed laws, if they would follow human morality instead of ecclesiastical morality, then there might be some chance of real improvement for the race, and some hope that the Divine Voice in Nature might be heard above the babble of the Churches.

The whole village was involved. There was no longer buzz, buzz, buzz. Something they liked as Africans to pretend themselves incapable of-- being oppressive and prejudiced-- was being exposed. They always knew it was there but no oppressor believes in his oppression.

I'd have given any- thing to know how Mom and Dad were, but you can't ask your parents such questions. You have to wait for them to tell you what it is that will happen next...

Teaching is the parenthetical hold, the instant of discovery, left to the instant.

Pete opened the cellar doors.

No. Silence is something. This is nothing. Why couldn't I hear it before? I think it has been there always. From the beginning of time.' He put out his hand and stubbed it on my arm, stared at it. 'At the end of the world, at the beginning of the world; under the sea and over the sky; at the root and crown of the universe: nothing. At all. That's what I heard. What I hear.' He leaned forward. 'Do you understand?

He gazed at me, grave and straight. With a shock I realized he was perfectly sane. He had just fallen through, all at once, into a deeper layer of himself—as if he had crashed through rotten floorboards into the basement.

Another face shone through his man's face, like a stone through running water.

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.