Quotes About Revelation

To which kingdom (or republic) do we owe our ultimate allegiance? If we want to get "in" with the coming administration of Christ the King, we had better come to terms with the witness of Revelation: that the one seated on the throne is the Lamb who was slain, and that self-giving love is the agenda throughout his dominions.

Oh. My. God.' she said, pointing out of the window. 'Do you know what that is?' I nodded and said, 'I think I may have seen it before.' 'That,' said Florida, 'is the Moonyouidiot.

I suppose if you've always been wrapped in wool, you don't know it's wool.

It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.

That's what teaching mostly is, the reinterpretation of familiar things in a new context.

We must not remind them that giants walk the Earth.

Our image of God-the-judgmental-deranged-monster badly needed fixing. Jesus came to edit our ideas.

I began to sense the depth of my ignorance about the country I was talking about. On the road, I'd be parroting the party line, saying that America was godless and doomed. But the America I was actually experiencing (for the first time as a resident) was not doomed. It was more complicated and wonderful than I had ever imagined.

In short, extensive Bible knowledge, a high-powered intellect, and razor-sharp reasoning skills do not automatically produce spiritual men and women who know Jesus Christ profoundly and who can impart a life-giving revelation of Him to others.

There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.

MELCHIOR- Je te dirai tout.-Je le tiens des livres, je le tiens d'illustrations, et aussi d'observations faites sur nature. (L'éveil du printemps)

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

It's one thing if a person learns you're a witch. It's quite another if he learns you're a murderer. I almost forget I'm a witch now that I know I'm a murderer—murderess, actually. Murderess sounds so much worse.

The problem I have telling my secret', said Eldric, 'is that it's a secret.

For four years I have been wearing blinders. I thought all this time I walked a path of cobblestones, and it turns out to have been an avenue of stars! For four years, my head has been caught in a box. Its sides were painted with pleasant enough scenes, but that I should have thought this was the world!

My, my," said Eldric. "You are full of surprises.

Remember: You're the girl with nothing below the surface. Scratch it and what do you find? More surface.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.

The science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov reportedly once said, "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.

As a man, I undertake to risk annihilation so that two or three truths can cast their essential light on the world.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.