Quotes About Revelation

The Bible is authoritative not because we accept it as such, but because it is the word of the risen Lord. It has a claim on all people. Its truth is the truth for every person in every place.

I told you that you wouldn't like me. I understand. It shows proper feeling. If you said to me: There's this man who is so callous and brutal that he doesn't give a damn about his fellow human beings, wouldn't shed a tear over the death of an innocent; would you care to meet this person, shake hands with him, maybe invite him into your home and have dinner with him? You're kidding, right. That hypothetical piece of shit is, of course, me.

Jesus found His identity in Scripture and always directed these people to the Scriptures and the prophecies that spoke of Him.

O How may I ever express that secret word? O how can I say He is not like this, and He is like that? If I say that He is within me, the universe is ashamed: If I say that He is without me, it is falsehood. He makes the inner and the outer worlds to be indivisibly one; The conscious and the unconscious, both are His footstools. He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed: There are no words to tell that which He is.

As long as human beings are unconscious and dominated by selfish and illusory desires, there is no god who will force us to change. But as the history of revelation on earth testifies, guidance has come to all communities and nations. Through masters, saints and prophets, through sacred texts and oral tradition, humanity has been reminded and warned. Cosmic intelligence has continually been in communication with us; now the burden of responsibility rests on each human heart. (p. 164)

Het is onduidelijk of iemand een masker heeft opgezet of het juist heeft laten vallen.

I came the second I heard," she told me breathlessly. "I can't believe it! Until this time we've only had the Boscana manuscript as any proof this religion arose before the introduction of Christianity and not in response to it!

I can't explain everything about why, but I found out some stuff recently that means I'm suddenly very interesting to a lot of people.", Celestra Caine, FADE by Kailin Gow

They say that the truth is important. That we should treasure it. But sometimes, I have to wonder if it would be better if I had never learned it.", Celestra Caine from FADE by Kailin Gow

This is who I am.", FADE by Kailin Gow

He steps over to me, putting his arms around my neck and staring into my eyes. Somehow, it always comes as a surprise to see how much he loves me in moments like that. Maybe it's just that he keeps his emotions so shut down the rest of the time, or maybe it's just that I can't get the hang of anyone loving me that deeply.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.

Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily routine are as much a commentary of racial ideals as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.

In the Christian context, we do not mean by a "mystery" merely that which is baffling and mysterious, an enigma or insoluble problem. A mystery is, on the contrary, something that is revealed for our understanding, but which we never understand exhaustively because it leads into the depth or the darkness of God. The eyes are closed—but they are also opened.

In our spiritual vision we are not only to see each thing in sharp relief, standing out in all the brilliance of its specific being, but we are also to see each thing as transparent: in and through each created thing we are to discern the Creator.

The only pure and all-sufficient source of the doctrines of the faith", writes Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow, "is the revealed word of God, contained in the Holy Scriptures.

Not only in this present age but also in the Age to come," says St Irenaeus, "God will always have something more to teach man, and man will always have something more to learn from God.

I did not see sin", says Julian of Norwich in her Revelations, "for I believe that it has no kind of substance, no share in being; nor can it be recognized except by the pain caused by it.

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms

By the time the first light appeared in the sky she felt herself transformed by the desire to be known, completely.

But just then Aneeka shrugged in response and he experienced one of those terrifying moments in which a person you thought you knew reveals a new aspect of their character that has taken hold while you weren't looking.

He felt the reassuring thump of having driven over a small animal, the jolt of it firming up the offer of a sick, annealing grin.

Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.