Quotes About Revelation

Ender was a destroyer, but what he destroyed was illusion, and the illusion had to die...the truth about ourselves. Somehow this ancient man is able to see the truth and it doesn't blind his eyes or drive him mad. I must listen to this voice and let its power come to me so I, too, can stare at the light and not die.

She believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence of a person who never speaks.

No one likes to find out that the story he always believed about his own identity is false.

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.

From you I can learn things that nobody knows.

How suddenly we find the flesh of God within us after all, when we thought that we were only made of dust.

Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus, but dared not ask for fear the answer would lead to the end of the annual largesse of Christmas.

How quickly we find the flesh of God within us all, when we thought that we were only made of dust.

So when war can't be avoided, you fight in such a way as to reveal to the enemy how war is destroying him. When he finally sees it, he stops.

Truth did not care much about such credentials. It refused to give up and reveal itself just because it realized you were bound to find it eventually. Bean

But I can promise you that there's somebody else somewhere else who'll make your god look like a maggot by comparison.

Ezekiel wanted to cry and he wanted to scream. Cry because he couldn't believe how painful all of this must have been, how sad and lonely Beth must have been. And scream because he never had a clue about the deep pain in Beth's life.

The ship was there. It was there, and still there, unmoving, unchanged. And then it was gone.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth

Harry, said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

I don't know who God is but if I meet Him anytime soon I'm going to get Him in the corner until He tells me the truth.

Satyagraha: the revelation of truth and the confrontation of injustice through nonviolent means.

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.