Quotes About Revelation

Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on.

The perfect metaphor, he said, looming up suddenly out of nowhere in the middle of your maiden voyage, unseen until it is nearly upon you, unavoidable even when you try to swerve, unexpected even though there have been warnings all along. [...]

None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.

Para dónde se va la oscuridad cuando sale el sol? Para ninguna parte, se convierte en luz.

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow.

Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools.

People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

He thought that God's goodness appeared in strange places. Dont close your eyes.

he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all

Mr Suttree in what year did your greatuncle Jeffrey pass away? It was in 1884. Did he die by natural causes? No sir. And what were the circumstances surrounding his death? He was taking part in a public function when the platform gave way. Our information is that he was hanged for a homicide.

If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.

Nobody comes with names. You give them names so that you can find them in the dark.

I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.

For let it go how it will, he said, God speaks in the least of creatures. The kid thought him to mean birds or things that crawl but the expriest, watching, his head slightly cocked, said: No man is give leave of that voice. The kid spat into the fire and bent to his work. I aint heard no voice, he said. When it stops, said Tobin, you'll know you've heard it all your life. Is that right? Aye.

You might think you could run away and change your name and I don't know what all. Start over. And then one mornin' you wake up and look at the ceilin' and guess who's layin' there?

The sun was just down and to the west lay reefs of bloodred clouds up out of which rose little desert nighthawks like fugitives from some great fire at the earth's end.

He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.

Wrinkle not thy sable brow at me, my friend. All will be known to you at last. To you as to every man.

If he is not the word of God God never spoke

He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

He said if he is not the word of God God never spoke (4)

When it stops, you'll know you've heard it all your life.