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Quotes About Revelation

Dawn begins pushing back the covers of night and the sun rolls out of bed.
~ Carl Safina
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
~ Carl Sagan
The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation.
~ Carl Sagan
The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader.
~ Carl Sagan
I believe in Spinoza's God, who revealed himself in the harmony of all being, not in the God who concerns himself with the fate and actions of men"—a more subtle religious view embraced by
~ Carl Sagan
I know personally, both from having science explained to me and from my attempts to explain it to others, how gratifying it is when we get it, when obscure terms suddenly take on meaning, when we grasp what all the fuss is about, when deep wonders are revealed.
~ Carl Sagan
She found what she had been searching for.
~ Carl Sagan
The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.
~ Carl Sagan
So beautiful! I had no idea! I had no idea...
~ Carl Sagan as Ellie Arroway
And the Sphinx broke its long silence: Don't expect too much.
~ Carl Sandberg
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
~ Carl Sandburg
Later tonight am going to tell you that I love you and maybe by that time you will be drunk enough to believe me.
~ Tennessee Williams
And in the spring, it's touching to notice them making their first discovery of love! As if nobody had ever known it before!
~ Tennessee Williams
In this way, I destroyed him, by telling him truth that he and his world which he was born and raised in, yours and his world, had told him could not be told?
~ Tennessee Williams
The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.
~ Terence McKenna
Sabía por advertencia del corazón que es peligroso el enfrentarse a las cosas sobre las cuales, desde lejos, ponemos a reposar nuestros recuerdos.
~ Teresa de la Parra
Maybe God was about to show him what he was made of.
~ Terri Blackstock
Everybody has one thing they keep, one thing that matters to them more than anything else. Life is just a process of elimination, figuring out what that one thing is. You may figure it out right at the end, just as you're losing it. If you're lucky.
~ Terry Bisson
If you're a real writer, you infuse your characters with truths from your own life. The old saw is, Write What You Know. I think it equally appropriate to add. Write Who You Are. Give your readers little insights into how you think. Share your feelings and beliefs in a way that makes other question their own, thereby requiring them in some small way to reevaluate their lives. Good storytelling compels us to do this.
~ Terry Brooks
There are many forms of magic in this world, High Lord. Some come in large packages, some in small. Some work with fire and strength of body and heard ... and some work with revelation.
~ Terry Brooks
Even in lies there are sometimes truths revealed.
~ Terry Brooks
He woke to find Larkin Quill standing over him. Even from the back—for he was turned away—the cloaked form of the ex-Tracker was instantly recognizable.
~ Terry Brooks
Secrets are destructive; the truth, even when hard to hear and harder to bear, is better. Char listened, learned, considered, and eventually found a form of grace.
~ Terry Brooks
Secrets are destructive; the truth, even when hard to hear and harder to bear, is better.
~ Terry Brooks