Quotes About Revelation

If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections--if he has any--against faith. Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.

that after a long time, and with the admixture of many errors. Whereas man's whole salvation, which is in God, depends upon the knowledge of this truth. Therefore, in order that the salvation of men might be brought about more fitly and more surely, it was necessary that they should be taught divine truths by divine revelation. It was therefore necessary that besides philosophical science built up by reason, there should be a sacred science learned through revelation.

Objection 3: Further, it is written (1 Cor. 13:12): "We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face.

I answer that, It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason.

It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason.

What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.

It is always pleasant to divulge a secret under dramatic circumstances.

Rightly known, God illumines all reality, all human experience, all revelation, and all religion

Christianity does not limit revelation to Christ, but through Christ sees God's revelation as occurring elsewhere and finally, echoing everywhere.

Christ is the unparalleled and unrepeatable Revealer through whom other revelations are best understood

Revelation is for human salvation, the mending of human brokenness (Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word 3).

The most urgent and demanding question for Christian believers is not whether "a supreme being of some kind" exists, but rather whether this incomparably good and powerful and compassionate source and end of all things truly is as revealed in Scripture

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

We called Dante the melodious Priest of Middle-Age Catholicism. May we not call Shakespeare the still more melodious Priest of a true Catholicism, the 'Universal Church' of the Future and of all times? No narrow superstition, harsh asceticism, intolerance, fanatical fierceness or perversion: a Revelation, so far as it goes, that such a thousandfold hidden beauty and divineness dwells in all Nature; which let all men worship as they can!

and then you would never be happy." 21. ?Yet We made them known to others thus, that they would know the promise of God is true, and that there can be no doubt about the end of time.

Nothing, indeed, is more revolting to English feelings than the spectacle of a human being obtruding on our notice his moral ulcers or scars, and tearing away that "decent drapery" which time or indulgence to human frailty may have drawn over them; accordingly, the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers.

Much that is terrible we do not know. Much that is beautiful we shall still discover. Let's sail till we come to the edge.

I had a kiss with Raquel Welch's daughter - she was a very naughty kisser.

We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

I've burned all my bridges for the sake of getting as near as I can to the truth. And after years of searching for the truth, you find that that's all you can bear. The truth and nothing but the truth.

Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.

All the early Facebook employees have their story of the moment when they saw the light and realized that Facebook wasn't some measly social network like MySpace but a dream of a different human experience.