Quotes About Revelation

Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.

find this amusing. 'Didn't you say you lived in Richmond?' 'Yeah. So what?

It's almost been worth this depression to find out how little our big men know.

I asked: "And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?" "Of course not—I'd read it first.

asked: "And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?" "Of course not—I'd read it first. I don't think I could have stood the suspense if I hadn't known what was going to happen. I'd have been way too worried.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

In spite of the variety of prophetic phenomenon in space (north, south, exile) and in time (premonarchial, monarchial, exilic, and postexilic), the prophets enjoyed the common bond with the past (the Mosaic revelation) and the future acts of God: the new era of God's coming, the transformation of all things, the judgment of the wicked, and the vindication of the righteous.

Je bent hier namelijk in de donkere kamer. Maar nergens ter wereld komt zoveel aan het licht als in een donkere kamer.

I saw bundles of dead raggedy reeds hanging down from the broken ceilings that had depicted heaven. I looked deep into the house's diseased and dying maw. It was like it had been putting on an act the whole time and was only now showing itself as it, in reality, had always been: a hollow, drafty cavern, rancid and rotting at its core.

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which they can see and know and understand.

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

Art can never exist without Naked beauty display'd.

Here it was always the lightthat mattered, and only the light. Once, it had seemedthe objects mattered: the light was to see them by.Examined, they yielded nothing, nothing real.They were for seeing the light in various ways.They gathered it, released it, held it in.In them, the light revealed itself, took shape.Objects are nothing. There is only the light, the light!

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

Somewhere beyond the curtainOf distorting daysLives that lonely thingThat shone before these eyesTargeted, trod like Spring.

One sinks in on God; we do not see the truth; God sees the truth in us…. Tell them, Fool, that when the life and the mind are broken, the truth comes through them like peas through a broken peascod.

I gave what other women gaveThat stepped out of their clothes,But when this soul, its body off,Naked to naked goes,He it has found shall find thereinWhat none other knows.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. (Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays)