Quotes About Revelation

I am a closet metal fan.

At the age of 11 I did my first open mic show, and it was one of those lightning-bolt moments where I suddenly found what I wanted to do.

I love Mickey Mantle. Would I have felt the same if I had known when I was eight years old what I know now?

I expected that someone was going to out me; you just can't go through life with a microscope on your career without someone delving into your past a little bit.

Those months at Milan let me do some soul-searching and made me realise that my calling was at Juventus, who are like my family.

Miles Davis himself, I discovered him when I was 15, and he rocked my world.

I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.

How cool it is to see a bride walking down the aisle with a beautiful long gown with beautiful layers of tulle and organza, unveiling their mini dress at the party?

The Buddha said, "When conditions are sufficient, the thing manifests, and when they are not sufficient, the thing remains hidden.

When St Francis looked deeply at an all day treatment in winter and asked it to speak to him about God, the tree was instantly covered in blossoms.

The essential elements of a person come to light only when we must regard him as lost to us, when everything he has done seems to have been a taking leave of us. Suddenly the true nature of everything about him that was merely preparation for his ultimate death becomes truly visible.

For a long time we see only one side of a person's personality, because for reasons of self-preservation we do not wish to see any other, I thought, then suddenly we see all sides of their personality and are disgusted by them, I thought.

To our horror, the very neighbor whom we had for decades thought of as the best natured and hardest working and, we always thought, the most contented of all our neighbors has turned out to be a murderer.

The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.

The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical or composed of letters, but of their several forms, constitutions, parts and operations, which, aptly joined together, do make one word that doth express their natures.

The question always is, what does misfortune really tell us?

poem is an experiment with and in language, an attempt to discover how best to capture its subject and make readers see it anew.

In prayer humans speak and God listens. In revelation God speaks to human hearers. In this way scripture and prayer feed the dialogue between humanity and God.

Christian faith has gained confidence that God will not reveal himself in a way contrary to the way he has revealed himself in Jesus Christ

Scriptures are not to be pitted against the Spirit. Scripture can be understood only through the same Spirit whereby it is given.31 The Scriptures, inspired by the Spirit, form the written rule by which the Spirit thereafter leads us into all truth.32

You could see the skeleton behind the man, and almost the ghost behind the skeleton.

The cruelty of fooled honesty is often great after enlightenment.