Quotes About Revelation

MARY'S HIDING Before these possessions you love slip away, say what Mary said when she was surprised by Gabriel, I'll hide inside God. Naked in her room she saw a form of beauty that could give her new life. Like the sun coming up, or a rose as it opens. She leaped, as her habit was, out of herself into the divine presence. There was fire in the channel of her breath. Light and majesty came. I am smoke from that fire and proof of its existence, more than any external form.

To write is to pour one's innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one's hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.

Il emportait un malaise qu'il connaissait trop bien, l'agacement, la gêne de ne jamais exprimer ce qu'il eût voulu exprimer, de ne jamais rencontrer la personne à qui il devait confier un aveu indéfini, un secret qui eût tout changé et dépouillé de son signe néfaste.

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

Honesty can be a dirty gift.

Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.

She was constantly surprising him. Siri went over and held up Mr. A's hand. All the fingertips were purple: triplicate syndrome.

Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.

You will know that the Lord will come and enter your soul if the doors, which are your senses, are closed…But you will answer that it would be wrong to say "no" to God and he alone is expected. But God comes in some other way of which you know nothing.

The world of immediate experience?the world in which we find ourselves living?must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

The profoundest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

Scientific information about the universe does not displace God. Some have said that they searched the heavens and did not see God. The universe with its measureless spaces remains a vast mystery to us, and those who do not find God in their immediate presence, in their heart and conscience, in the Word and the Christian community, will not find him in the universe either, even though they are equipped with the best telescopes that money can buy.

Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.

The task of dogmatics is precisely to rationally reproduce the content of revelation that relates to the knowledge of God.

The greatest thinkers of Greece — Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and later Plutarch and Plotinus — derived their ideas from ancient tradition, and further on from divine revelation.

Religion is inconceivable apart from revelation, and revelation cannot occur apart from the existence of a spiritual world above and behind this visible world, a spiritual world in communion with the visible world.

Where God's Word is, there is God Himself, there God's Spirit is at work, there God establishes His covenant, there He plants His church.

religious experience is neither the source nor the foundation of religious truth;

Ethical culture must be a philosophy of revelation or it cannot exist.

Revelation in nature and revelation in Scripture form, in alliance with each other, a harmonious unity which satisfies the requirements of the intellect and the needs of the heart alike.

The absolute, immutable, and inviolable supremacy of that will of God is the light which special revelation holds before our soul's eye at the end of time.

205The segregation and the election of Israel served the sole purpose of maintaining, unmixed and unadulterated, continuing and perfecting, the original revelation, which threatened to be lost206so that it might again in the fullness of time be made the property of the whole of mankind.

gospel is in the Old and the New Testament alike the core of the divine revelation, the essence of religion, the sum total of the Holy Scriptures.

One arrives at metaphysics, at a philosophy of religion, only if from another source one has gained the certainty that religion is not just an interesting phenomenon—comparable to belief in witches and ghosts—but truth, the truth that God exists, reveals himself, and is knowable.