Quotes About Revelation

The history of the Bible can be viewed as a Tale of Two Cities: Babylon as the City of Man; Jerusalem as the City of God. Both of them have their beginnings in Genesis and both of them are prominent in the climax of the book of Revelation. They represent ideas, not just locales.

The symbolism of this strange episode remains obscure until, in the New Testament, Jesus explains it to Nicodemus:

Joshua 10:1–28; Rev. 6:15–17). The more you study both books, the more the similarities are striking and illuminating.

Prophecy is not the study of things to come: prophecy is looking at God's total plan from beginning to end.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

I've come to the conclusion that it's more important that I have the right attitude than that I have the right answers. If my answers are wrong, God can change them in a moment by the revelation of His truth. But often times it takes a whole lifetime to change an attitude. Better that we have the right attitude and the wrong answers, than the right answers and the wrong attitude.

What...what are you?" she asked. "I'm Batman.

Don't ask for the truth, boy, unless you're ready to hear it.

I . . . what do you mean? I don't know any Angelique." Catherine stared at him in surprise. "Why, Garren, of course you know Angelique, the clerk in my shop in Whitehall?" Garren planted both hands on the table and pushed to his feet. "Let's go. This is a waste of time." "It says . . ." The seer frowned, as if trying to make out a hazy script. "It says, 'I'm not going to sleep with you anymore, you faithless bastard.

Adrian. Adrian was alive, and he was at Oden's Ford. And no one had told her these four long years, because they thought she would do something stupid.

Raisa's breath caught. "They clubbed you?" "Well." He looked sideways at her. "If you were any good, they'd miss.

Maybe Charlotte was right, and I was hopelessly addicted to breaking rules oprinciple.

What's the matter, Garrett? Am I getting a little too close to the truth?" "What you're getting a little too close to is a spanking.

I think of how sometimes God puts people together, maybe more often than we realize. We can disregard it, lie to ourselves, find the reasons why it's impractical. But something within the creation of them connects. I've been afraid of it. There is something fearful in revealing our true selves, allowing others to peer intimately inside. It takes such trust, and none of us are completely trustworthy.

Sometimes God's ways are mysterious. Sometimes He reveals them bit by bit over long periods of time. Then sometimes they're just plain bizarre, but immediately clear -- picture-perfect.

Naive enough to set off in pursuit of Truth, I had explored - to no avail - any number of disciplines. I was beginning to be confirmed in my skepticism when the notion occurred to me of consulting, as a last result, Poetry: who knows? perhaps it would be profitable, perhaps it conceals beneath its arbitrary appearances some definitive revelation ... Illusory recourse! Poetry had outstripped be in negation and cost me even my uncertainties ...

We beginnen pas werkelijk te leven aan het einde van de filosofie, op haar ruïne, wanneer we haar verschrikkelijke onbenulligheid hebben begrepen, en begrepen hebben dat het nutteloos was toevlucht tot haar te nemen, dat zij geen enkele hulp biedt.

JUAN 1John 1 1 Lo que era desde el principio, lo que hemos Oído, lo que hemos visto con nuestros ojos, lo que contemplamos y palparon nuestras manos tocante al Verbo de vida 2 --la vida fue manifestada, y la hemos visto; y os testificamos y anunciamos la vida eterna que estaba con el Padre y nos fue manifestada--,

The truth wouldn't set her free. Far from it. The truth was a Pandora's box and she had to keep the lid firmly closed

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are.

She puts her arm around me. 'You're just too young to understand.' As soon as she says this, I realise she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are.