Quotes About Revelation

El infierno es una fiesta tan maravillosa, que solo después del primer mes te das cuenta que aquello es un castigo.

The tales told by the dead are fundamentally different, because their stories are not told to conceal their wounds.

Some humans claim to be made in God's image - what an insult to God. There are, however, in the northern reaches of our Earth, small tribes who can still remember that God looked like a bear.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her.

Do you understand? You've been praying to a crucified chimpanzee all these years. Your Son of Man is not a god-he's just an ape on a cross!

The difference between God and the rational animal is far greater than that between man and the insect world, and it is inconceivable that the human intelligence can understand the process of divine revelation, even though he is the recipient of it.

Nowhere is this idea of divine revelation so strongly expressed or so clearly identified with the tradition of culture as in the case of Israel. For here the whole social form and historical destiny of the people had been imposed on them by the Word of Yahveh, which was not merely, as in other cases, a sacred tradition of learning, but a way of life embodied in a moral law and a sacred history which set it apart from all the other peoples of the ancient world.

And when at last Peter does confess Jesus to be 'the Messiah', 'the Son of the Living God', this is immediately followed not by any declaration of future triumph, but by Jesus' announcement of his passion and death. The revelation of the mistery of the kingdom is at the same time the revelation of the mystery of the cross.

Western religion and theology represent a synthesis of two different traditions, the Hebraic tradition of religious revelation, which is represented by the Bible, and the Hellenic tradition of metaphysical or natural theology.

Oh, Kenneth, Kenneth, believe me - there's nothing I'd rather do! I want like hell to tell you. But I can't. I quite literally can't. Because, don't you see, what I know is what I am? And I can't tell you that. You have to find it out for yourself. I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.

God's revelation was not a mystic secret for the initiated, but a light to guide every member of God's community.

The invisible God makes himself visible in the love that Christians have for one another.

Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.

Christopher Kenworthy

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.

I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.

It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.

God's camera takes snapshots that don't fall into your hand like Polaroids do. They pop right into your head and stay there forever.

Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.

When we worship, we ascend, when we ascend we gain revelation from God.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation.

According to Josephus, on Cyrus's ceremonial entrance to the city, Daniel (who lived at least until the third year of Cyrus) presented him with the writings of Isaiah that included a letter addressed to Cyrus by name, written 150 years earlier.2 Can you imagine his reaction?