Quotes About Revelation

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

What is taken from you before you get it? Your photograph.

If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em. I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs which they have smothered and forgotten.

The maxims of men disclose their hearts.

"That's what." —She

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

Der Blick, des Forschers fand nicht selten mehr, als er zu finden wünschte.

But the day will come when you will have to answer for it! You know I didn't come here alone to-day——!" Both men looked startled and glanced uneasily into the shadows, as if there might be someone lurking there. "God came with me and He knows! He'll make you remember some day!

It would be well, in our praying, to sometimes lift the head and see whether the answer to our prayers is not shining in the heavens or standing joy-clothed beside us, or even lying at our feet waiting to be recognized.

En Peyton Place había tres fuentes de escándalo: suicidio, asesinato y la deshonra de una muchacha soltera.

realized that when everything is stripped away from you and you have nothing, you find out what you really are down deep inside. What I was starting to see was not pretty.

When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

The truth of God's Word cannot be subject to the puny light of man's self-centred reason

Preservation of orthodoxy seems to emerge as a supreme and contentious problem for all three monotheistic faiths, far more so than for other major world religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, or Confucianism. This may be partly due to the fact that the monotheistic religions are "revealed," that is, they are believed to have existed eternally and preexist the exact moment of revelation to their prophets. There is less room for flexibility on doctrine.

In childhood all books are books of divination, telling us about the future, and like the fortune-teller who sees a long journey in the cards or death by water they influence the future. I suppose that is why books excited us so much. What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

She couldn't see him, but his voice was like light through a stained-glass window in a cathedral.

And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.

When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.

The consummation of a revelation is always dependent upon its genesis.

No evil equals no plot equals no movie equals no money. Thus the paradox: while we convince ourselves we are good (or at least not depraved), our most powerful art form is built upon the revelation that this is a lie.