Quotes About Revelation

Silence waits for truth to break it

We learned the truth at seventeen," mourned a song that was popular that year, "that love was meant for beauty queens.

I thought that in prayer everything depended on me and my efforts, on the books passing through my hands, and the beauty of the words which I was able to introduce into my conversations with God. What is worse, I thought the knowledge of God I was acquiring through study and reasoning was the real and only one. I hadn't yet understood that it was only an image, a covering, an introduction to God's true and authentic revelation, which is supernatural and eternal.

If God were attainable with the intelligence, how unjust it would be! It would have made easy the task of the wise and the great of this world, and would have made knowledge of God all but impossible for the little ones, the poor, and the ignorant. But God himself has found the way to be equally accessible to everybody. His revelation comes in love, in that faculty which we can all share.

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

Y cómo me ves tú a mí? —Como un misterio. —Ese es el cumplido más raro que me han hecho nunca. —No es un cumplido. Es una amenaza. —¿Y eso? —Los misterios hay que resolverlos, averiguar qué esconden. —A lo mejor te decepcionas al ver lo que hay dentro. —A lo mejor me sorprendo. Y tú también.

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...

With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

1My father says a hunch is your brain's way of taking a short cut to the truth,' replied Max. 'He's a wise man, your father. What else does he say?' 'That the more you try to hide from the truth, the quicker it finds you.

Time cures all, I thought, except the truth.

Truth cannot be found, son. It finds you.

Hay cosas que sólo pueden verse entre tinieblas

The more you hide the truth, the quicker it finds you - Max, The Prince of Midst

Nothing is more surprising or frightening than what one already knows.

Hay cosas que sólo pueden verse entre tinieblas —insinuó mi padre blandiendo una sonrisa enigmática

Cedo ou tarde, o oceano do tempo nos devolve as lembranças que enterramos nele.

Respirar se le ha acabado, se lo digo yo. Piense que un traje de novia es como una escafandra de buzo: no es el mejor sitio para respirar, lo divertido empieza cuando se lo quitan. El Prisionero del Cielo

Le maschere rivelano il vero volto delle persone

Nie wiedziaÅ'em wówczas, ?e ocean czasu – chcemy czy nie – zawsze zwraca nam to, co w nim kiedyÅ› pogrzebaliÅ›my.

normalmente se permite a los muchachos vivir en la ignorancia del verdadero rostro del mundo hasta bien entrada la juventud, pero temo que vosotros no tendréis ese dudoso privilegio.

La llama iluminó por primera vez su semblante. Se me heló el alma. Aquel personaje no tenía nariz, ni labios, ni párpados. Su rostro era apenas una máscara de piel negra y cicatrizada, devorada por el fuego.

El anciano hizo una mueca burlona. La verdad no se encuentra, hijo. Ella lo encuentro a uno.

Faith is found when one isn't looking for it.

Cuanto más se le intenta ocultar algo a un niño, más empeño pone este en encontrarlo, ya sea un dulce o una postal de coristas descocadas dándoles vuelo a sus encantos.