Quotes About Revelation

Sometimes when she woke from a flabbergasting dream Liz would lie very still to see if she could net it before it fled; perfectly still, eyes closed, not moving her head, as if the slightest shift would tip the story-bearing liquid, break its fragile meniscus and spill the night's elusive catch.

Where and how did you propose? She bit her lip. Um... Callen ran a hand over Grace's hair. In bed as nature intended. He shot an apologetic glance his mother's direction. Sorry. She shook her head. That's okay. I figured out you've slept together. For some reason that struck Mallory as hysterical. The pregnancy gave it away, right?

Quel suo fantomatico viaggio sulle Alpi aveva svelato una verità nascosta che portava dentro di sé. Sapeva di non essere un uomo che si nasconde dietro alle proprie menzogne. Ma allo stesso tempo aveva iniziato a chiedersi sempre più spesso se la sua visione del mondo non fosse in realtà una specie di menzogna, anche se derivava da una mancanza di sensibilità più che da un consapevole allontanamento dalla verità.

Even as a ten-year-old, the incident made it clear to me that people are never completely what we believe they are. Including me. There is always something unexpected within those we meet, those we think we have got to know.

On se connaît si mal, se dit-elle confusément avant de s'endormir dans son lit. On a beau se dire plus jamais... Dans le fond, c'est peut-être ça qui nous aide à vivre... L'inattendu. Ce qui arrive contre toute attente...

Traces of a crime need to be coaxed out, not rushed.

One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are beautiful for us as well as for others to see.

Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

death is not the total dissolution or our identity but the way to its fullest revelation.

A good host is the one who believes that his guest is carrying a promise he wants to reveal to anyone who shows genuine interest.

I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but, instead, as the one who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding.

It is by being awake to God in us that we can increasingly see God in the world around us.

I will see great things when I am willing to be seen. I will receive new eyes that see the mysteries of GOd's own life, but only when I allow God to see me, all of me, even those parts that I myself do not want to see.

What matters here is that the moment Cleopas and his friend recognized Jesus in the breaking of bread, his bodily presence was no longer required as a condition for their new hope.

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

The profoundest lessons are not the lessons of reason; they are sudden strains that permanently warp the mind.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

I have scarcely heard of a truer sacrament, that is, as the dictionary defines it, outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace, than this, and I have no doubt that they were originally inspired directly from Heaven to do thus, though they have no Biblical record of the revelation.

I saw it throwing off its nightly clothing of mist, and here and there, by degrees, its soft ripples or its smooth reflecting surface was revealed.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.