Quotes About Revelation

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

The dumber people think you are, the most surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

December 21, 1845. Sunday.]...Elder Kimball showed the right fashion for a leaf, spoke of Elder Richards being protected at Carthage Jail, having on the robe, while Joseph and Hyrum and Elder Taylor were shot to pieces, said the Twelve would have to leave shortly, for a charge of treason would be brought against them for swearing us to avenge the blood of the anointed ones, and some one would reveal it and we shall have to part some say between sundown and dark.

Shine by the side of every path we treadWith such a luster, he that runs may read.

Happy the bard, (if that fair name belong To him that blends no fable with his song) Whose lines uniting, by an honest art, The faithful monitors and poets part, Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind, And while they captivate, inform the mind. Still happier, if he till a thankful soil, And fruit reward his honorable toil: But happier far who comfort those that wait To hear plain truth at Judah's hallow'd gate

Here is the sequence of steps we have identified in achieving a path of purpose: Inspiring communication with persons outside the immediate family Observation of purposeful people at work First moment of revelation: something important in the world can be corrected or

Most joyful the Poet be;It is through him that all men see.

I was a sunburnt pagan now. I felt privy to mysteries.

I seen a pretty woman in a red dress, the old man said. And then I seen her take it off. What else is there?

Then the babies started comin, the old man went on. They never heard of rubbers, I reckon, or maybe they figured that that would be cheatin. One of the youngest of them girls told me one time, she was drinkin a little or she never would have told it, she said her sisters would bury them babies in widemouth Mason fruit jars.

Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give...If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is.

Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

Truth lies deep, and must be digged for. Since

So that now all those ways whereby God directly made known his mind to this people, are resolved into this one of the Scriptures, which we are to receive as the undoubted word of God, containing in a perfect rule of faith and life, and to expect no other revelation of his mind to us.

Bless God for the translation of the Scriptures. The word is our sword. By being translated, this sword is drawn out of its scabbard.

Some books are learned at once reading, but the gospel is a mystery that will take up more than thy lifetime to understand it.

They are all such notions as never came into the heart of the wisest sophists in the world to conceive of; and therefore it is no wonder that a little child, under the preaching of the gospel, believes these mysteries which Plato and Aristotle were ignorant of, because they are not attained by our parts and industry, but communicated by divine and supernatural revelation.

Ecclesia est Christus explicatus—the church is nothing but Christ displayed.

The Spirit is the only true interpreter of the word. Hence that known passage of Bernard: quo spiritu factæ sunt Scripturæ, eo spiritu legi desi derant, ipso etiam intelligendæ sunt—the Scriptures must be read, and can be understood, by that Spirit alone by whom they were made.

We have a name for the Second Coming but none for a second coming.

we are forever getting confused into thinking that scripture is mainly about what we are supposed to do rather than a picture of who God is.

We are right to trust descriptions of Jesus given by those most disrupted by Jesus.