Quotes About Revelation

The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.

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For me, the sacred is always the revelation of the real, an encounter with that which saves us by giving meaning to our existence.

Nowhere in the history of religions do we find an adoration of any natural object in itself. A sacred thing, whatever its form and substance, is sacred because it reveals or shares in ultimate reality. Every religious object is always an "incarnation" of something: of the sacred.

Myth is an autonomous act of creation by the mind: it is through that act of creation that revelation is brought about – not through the things or events it makes use of.

I know I'm capable of being outrageous, but I don't do it all the time; at home I'm quiet and boring, preferring to subside into a book or into the computer. I do not have a public persona. I don't assume sweetness for the camera; I'm the same person no matter where I go or what company I'm in. But, like everyone else, I judge which facet of my personality will suit a particular situation and present it. To that extent, I am calculating - but never to conceal, only to reveal.

I don't know now why I let her believe otherwise, but someday, perhaps, it will be clear.

My dad had said don't look, but I'd already seen him. Pickled eggs are the Devil's snack.

I look at the boys, asleep, unconscious to be exact, and plead silently with them to tell me the truth.

Someone has been sawing off all the branches of the tree outside my dining room window. I like to sit in my T-shirt and panties at the dining room table first thing in the morning and listen to the uneaten mourning doves and write. The branches covered virtually the entire window and prevented the neighbors from seeing me sitting here in my underwear. But now the branches are coming away one by one and revealing me to my neighbors slowly like a puzzle taking shape.

Theology is in crisis, largely because it has lost its nerve and forgotten its purpose to help discern, articulate, and commend compelling visions of flourishing life in light of God's self-revelation in Jesus Christ.

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

Secrets. We think by keeping them, we're controlling things, but all the while, they're controlling us.

What is the reason?' 'Finish your journey and you will know.

Still, I never considered what I would do if I called for the Lord and He actually appeared before me.

And is often the case with faith, I thought I was being asked a favor, when in fact I was being given one.

What did you expect the Lord to look like? Don't we always say, 'If only we could see God, we would know he was real'? What if He has finally given us a chance to see Him? Is it still not enough?

Secrets. We think by keeping them, we're controlling things, but all the while, they're controlling us.

Then, in Annie's new grasp, Cleo's womanly frame shrank down. Her coat tightened and became her fur. Her legs pulled in. Her ears and snout elongated. She was revealed as the puppy she used to be on earth, and she panted as Annie held her up and said, "There you are. Cleo. Cleee-o!

Some would say that you meet the Lord.

am the Lord," he whispered.

You did this, too? he finally said. You met five people? She nodded. A different five people, he said. She nodded again. And they explained everything? And it made a difference? She smiled. All the difference. She touched his chin. And then I waited for you.

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