Quotes About Revelation

the verses that follow appear to stress the mental deficiency of the darkness: its unwillingness to believe and therefore its inability to comprehend. Then, as the story of Jesus unfolds, John will show that truth is nonsense to a mind darkened by sin (8:

Then the screen comes on, showing a familiar menu on a blue background and I stare at it, transfixed, like a yokel who's never seen a television before. Because it's not a TV. It's a flat-screen PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition. They can't be that dumb. It's got to be a trap, I gibber to myself. Not even the clueless cannon-fodder-in-jumpsuits who staff any one of the movies on the shelf would be that dumb!

loose lips don't merely sink ships, they summon krakens with too many tentacles.

And if the common people ever realise that vampires exist, it will be a very short time indeed before naked noonday identity parades are required by law.

Dear God," whispers Pete, "it's full of posters!

Well, now is the time to peel back the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment to this mass of sticky half-truths and lies. The truth hurts, but not as much as the consequences of willful ignorance.

her Jonquil overlay

Startled, she reached into the bag again. Another fortune cookie, another message: I MADE A BANDAGE BUT YOU EATED IT.

Eternal torture is nowhere suggested in the Old Testament Scriptures, and only a few statements in the New Testament can be so misconstrued as to appear to teach it; and these are found either among the symbolisms of Revelation, or among the parables and dark sayings of our Lord, which were not understood by the people who heard them (Luke 8:10) and which seem to be but little better comprehended today. [...]

Hughes has to say. In the cold light of morning

mother's eyes widen

His hands may have been the one to heal you, but it will be mine that awaken you.

Who is there?" asks God. "It is I." "Go away," God says… Later… "Who is there?" asks God. "It is Thou." "Enter," replies God.

I have no doubt that my mother's pregnancy with me was an accident. Mostly because on several occasions, she told me I was an accident.

We were greeted by a dark-skinned man who introduced himself as Truth. We introduced ourselves as Honesty, Happiness, Honor, Witness, Serengeti , and Schnitzeldoodle. We didn't find out until later, when we met our tracker called Life, that Truth wasn't joking with us about his name.

And immediately Okonkwo's eyes were opened and he saw the whole matter clearly. Living fire begets cold, impotent ash. He sighed again, deeply.

But knowing or not knowing does not save us from being known

If we want to see God as he longs for us to see him, we must look at Jesus very closely.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

Sharon claims "God told me this," and Marcus

it was then that an idea began to form in her mind. It was vague, the details beyond definition. But she was starting to see its contours, like the shore when a ship first spies land on the horizon.

You struggle. You fight and you claw inside that head of yours. You wrestle with God, with the idea that he actually cares for you, with the place your children have brought you, and a thousand other things. There's something about your struggle others need to know. That they'll benefit from." "I don't understand.

God had used a blind man to show him what he couldn't see. That made John smile through his tears.