Quotes About Revelation

Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.

We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.

If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man...God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

Hide nothing from your confessor... a sick man can be cured only by revealing his wounds.

A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.

Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.

Hiro and Chuck grab the closest thing they can find to a corner table. Hiro buttonholes a waiter and surreptitiously orders a pitcher of Pub Special, mixed half and half with nonalcoholic beer. This way, Chuck ought to remain awake a little longer than he would otherwise. It doesn't take much to make him open up. He's like one of these old guys from a disgraced presidential administration, forced out by scandal, who devotes the rest of his life to finding people who will listen to him.