Quotes About Revelation

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.

What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed.

Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Hidden nature is secret God.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.