Quotes About Revelation

The Holy Spirit's work in assisting the student to understand the Bible is, however, not to be feared as a work that will lead into bizarre interpretations previously unknown. In fact, "when the Spirit guides into all truth, it is actually a matter of bringing forth or eliciting what is already known.

Experience alone as an authoritative source mediating the revelation of God to people is not reliable.12 Human

human words are at best tentative, being true only in so far as they align with the revelation of the Bible. We are not a cadre of superior believers who reach from their lofty heights to assist those of inferior development along the way. Rather, we are fellow travelers along the path of life who desire to share what we have learned about God and His dealings. The call is to those who read to come along and let us learn together about the riches of our Lord.

Unter jeder harten Bananenschale steckt eine weiche...Banane

For the New Testament authors, Jesus' resurrection is not an isolated miracle, but a crucial revelatory disclosure concerning the nature of reality, the identity of God, and the destiny of human beings.

I will tell you the whole story of my life, and it is a life that truly began only on the day I met you. Before that, there was nothing but murky confusion into which my memory never dipped again, some kind of cellar full of dusty, cobwebbed, sombre objects and people.

On the day I lost my passport I discovered, at the age of fifty-eight, that losing one's native land implies more than parting with a circumscribed area of soil.

He felt that it was a mistake to look for signs and portents instead of waiting until they were revealed to him in their own good time.

For a society is always most cruel to those who disclose and reveal its secrets, when through dishonesty society itself has outraged Nature.

And he listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling the future would not speak to him again, revealing the present to him as well as the past.

Je veux te dévoiler toute ma vie, cette vie qui n'a vraiment commencé que le jour où je t'ai connu.

Mi sorpresa al darme cuenta de que aquellos empujoncitos a unas figuras de un tablero eran lo mismo que mis devaneos por los espacios del pensamiento podría compararse a la de un astrónomo que a fuerza de cálculos complicados sobre un papel deduce la existencia de un nuevo planeta, y después lo ve realmente en el cielo, un astro blanco, claro, sustancial.

Desde aquella noche en la que el hombre que yo más veneraba me abrió su destino como se abre una dura concha, desde aquella noche de hace cuarenta años, me parece infantil e insignificante todo lo que nuestros narradores y poetas cuentan en los libros como extraordinario y todo lo que en los teatros se disfraza de tragedia.

ilk kez bu dünyaya ait birisi için var olduÄŸumu hissediyordum.

A new world suddenly opened up on the printed page before me, the words moved vigorously towards me as if they had been seeking me for centuries...

Mais l'amour ne devient vraiment réel qu'à partir du moment où il cesse de planer, douloureux et sombre, à l'état embryonnaire, au plus profond des entrailles, où il ose se nommer, s'avouer par le souffle et les lèvres.

If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.

Something nasty in the woodshed.

Richard had realized, not that Elfine was beautiful, but that he loved Elfine. (Young men frequently need this fact pointing out to them, as Flora knew by observing the antics of her friends.)

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.' Flora

To sum up, salvation to the Gnostic means not reconciliation with an angry God by way of the death of his son, but rather liberation from the stupor induced by earthly existence and an awakening by way of gnosis.

I thought that was you.

I'm not trying to steal your thunder, but I feel like I'm the one who just woke up."

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.