Quotes About Revelation

the one unmistakable, incontestable manifestation of the Divinity is the law of right and wrong, which has come into the world by revelation, and which I feel in myself,

Prince Vasili came next. He staggered to the sofa on which Pierre was sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. Pierre noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an ague.

What has become of it? Where are you, pain?" He turned his attention to it. "Yes, here it is. Well, what of it? Let the pain be." "And death … where is it?" He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light. "So that's what it is!" he suddenly exclaimed aloud. "What joy!

Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man who, while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich had lived. For the first time the question presented itself to him of the possibility of his wife's loving someone else, and he was horrified at it.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

I raise my glass to the Awful Truth, Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth, Except to say it isn't worth a dime, And the whole damn place goes crazy twice, And it's once for the Devil and once for Christ

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

I DRAW ASIDE THE CURTAIN. You mock us with the beauty of your world.

I am not the one you are looking for. You are not the one I've stopped looking for.

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed).

Prayer does not condition God; prayer conditions us. Prayer does not win God to our view; it reveals God's view to us.

Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own "real" world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.

Authentic evangelism is lifting up the veil of what God is up to and manifesting the image of God in the world we are in.

La verità è che tante cose in noi, che crediamo morte, stanno come in una valle del sonno: non amena, non ariostesca. E sul loro sonno la ragione deve sempre vigilare. O magari, a prova, qualche volta svegliarle e lasciare che da quella valle escano: ma perché se ne tornino più mortificate e impotenti... Ma se la prova non riesce? Ecco il punto.

La verdad está en el fondo de un pozo; uno mira en un pozo y ve el sol y la luna, pero si se tira ya no hay ni sol ni luna, está la verdad.

He had needed someone to see him, to understand; to astonish him, like the concert.

Only the dead know the truth.

I do not want to lie so rudely and ungracefully. I will lie to you elsewhere, when you least expect it, and that will be far more interesting for both of us.

Imagine you're living in a flock, and one day you find out that the others aren't sheep at all -- they're wolves.

Even though you won't believe me my story is beautiful And the serpent that sang it Sang it from out of the well.

Then why on earth had she never told anyone about these things? Matthews asked. Linda didn't miss a beat. "Because no one ever asked," she said. "You're the first that ever did.

Because prophetic it definitely was, placing itself explicitly in the tradition of previous prophets from Moses down through the ages to Jesus. "Say: 'We believe in God and in that which has been revealed to us; in what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the tribes of Israel; to Moses and Jesus and the other prophets.

Whether you think the words he heard came from inside himself or from outside, it is clear that Muhammad experienced them, and with a force that would shatter his sense of himself and his world.