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Quotes About Revelation

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.
~ Albert Einstein
Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.
~ Kjell Bloch Sandved
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
~ Ivan Turgenev
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
~ Pierre Schaeffer
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
~ Oscar Wilde
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
~ E. Stanley Jones
All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning.
~ Ernest Fenollosa
It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
~ Russell Banks, Trailerpark
My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.
~ Tom Hanks
The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
~ John Ruskin
The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.
~ John Ruskin
Now I can show you my true nature.
~ SebastiAn
Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.
~ Sergio Pinto
The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.
~ William James
Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word "glory" a meaning for me.
~ C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
The beauty that lies hidden, makes my soul tremble with awe.
~ Patricia Robin Woodruff
I've found that people reveal nothing of their true selves except within their art and their sin." ~ Dacey Sinnett, 'ROAM
~ Dez Schwartz, Roam
Let your teaching reveal the nature of the kingdom of God
~ Sunday Adelaja
But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable.
~ Patrick White, Voss
It's not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Human beings wear clothing and walk upright, but when you take that away, we're nothing but monkeys.
~ Osamu Tezuka, Ode to Kirihito
It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
~ G. K. Chesterton