Quotes About Revelation

IN LUDO VERITAS. In the Game Is Truth.

The kind of smile that has kept a froggy, dark sort of surprise in its back pocket, and won't spoil it too soon.

Most of her feelings she deemed insubstantial and she sent them packing with barely a nod of recognition. But her feelings for her daughter she recognized as inevitable, irresistable, and she reveled in them.

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

looked straight at her. 'Donna, I think Edna

Already, "woke" is a hashtag that's now mocked, when being awake is not a singular revelation but a long-term commitment fueled by constant reevaluation.

It makes me worried about the future, about this nation's inborn capacity to forget, about the powers that be who always win and take over the narrative. Already, "woke" is a hashtag that's now mocked, when being awake is not a singular revelation but a long

Odd how being away could teach you about home.

and in that single moment she felt as though she had seen into his soul and the very heart of the the love he bore for her and their children

It was only then that I realized the distance between uncle and nephew wasn't nearly as great as I'd assumed.

I understood that I was being shown the future: shards of what would come to be. Often, I cried out for the pain of it. But other times, I was comforted, because I saw, for an instant, the pattern of the whole.

Lord bless us! I never would have believed it! said the friar, startled out of his usual cynicism. 'An honest man!

Lord bless us! I never would have believed it!' said the friar, startled out of his usual cynicism. 'An honest man!

Por las uñas de un hombre, por las mangas de su abrigo, por sus botas, por las rodillas de sus pantalones, por los callos de su dedo índice y pulgar, por su expresión, por los puños de su camisa, por sus movimientos, por cada una de estas cosas la vocación de un hombre queda claramente revelada. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Estudio en escarlata

Als ik me de wedergeboorte Gods voorstel, dan zie ik die niet in de mens. Het zou in een lam kunnen zijn, maar ik vind een ezel liever.

Is het niet zo, dat men in het ondergaande, het ontbindende en hopeloos strijdende veel gemakkelijker de waarheid kan ontdekken dan in het bloeiende, zich samenvoegende en groeiende? Is het niet een feit, dat ziekte en dood veel duidelijker het wezen van het bestaan aan het licht brengen dan gezondheit en athletiek op Zondagmiddag?

Is het niet zo, dat men in het ondergaande, het ontbindende en hopeloos strijdende veel gemakkelijker de waarheid kan ontdekken dan in het bloeiende, zich samenvoegende en groeiende? Is het niet een feit, dat ziekte en dood veel duidelijker het wezen van het bestaan aan het licht brengen dan gezondheid en athletiek op Zondagmiddag

At no time did anyone throw his cap in the air and rejoice that another painter, capable of equaling Hals at his best, had been discovered.

That's what I was doing the day you children found me in your grandfather's room." Mr.

So the peak of human knowledge or philosophy is to recognize its own uselessness—if man were still the same as he was in the beginning—and to undo the damage that it has done, and return man to the condition in which he would always have been if it had never existed.

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta potè indovinar? Il suo mister come mai come mai fini Ahimè! un giorno uno studente in bocca la baciò e fu quel bacio rivelazione: fu la passione! Folle amore! Folle ebbrezza! Chi la sottil carezza d'un bacio così ardente mai ridir potrà? Ah! mio sogno! Ah! mia vita! Che importa la ricchezza se alfine è rifiorita la felicità! O sogno d'or poter amar così!

Every man has reminiscences that he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind that he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. Dostoyevsky. Notes from Underground. It

Some people may not know the things that you hide about yourself. Yet, God will always know everything.

But like all wonders, natural or otherwise, it made your own life seem temporary, and it told you things about the passage of time you didn't want to know.