Quotes About Revelation

Memories come out of nowhere, sometimes, don't they? Like a splinter long in the finger finally rises to the surface. Pluck it out, and the pain goes—and you realize there has been discomfort all along, but you have lived with it.

Does it sound crazy to say I looked at her and saw the world falling into some kind of order that I didn't even know it was out of?

Maybe, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this, in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered.

by this very forgetting, he arrives at a sense for truth.

seem to understand. With three walled

Love is the self-revelation of two souls. Sometimes it comes in a blinding moment in only one day, sometimes after a slow awakening of eleven years. God takes no cognizance of the timetable.

revealed. There would be a brief hello

with that insight which comes to a man only once or twice in his lifetime, allowing him to see ahead into the structure of the years.

We told Ellen, "He's a

When you seek, you find things you did not anticipate.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened;

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveal him to himself

Circumstance does not make the person; it reveals him to himself

THERE is no bondage in the Heavenly Life. There is Perfect Freedom. This is its great glory. This Supreme Freedom is gained only by obedience. He who obeys the Highest co-operates with the Highest, and so masters every force within himself and every condition without. A man may choose the lower and neglect the Higher, but the Higher is never overcome by the lower: herein lies the revelation of Freedom.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself

Circumstances don't shape us, so much as they reveal us.

Circumstance does not make the person, it reveals the person to himself or herself.

He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened; for

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him.