Quotes About Revelation

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

Don't forget to tell everyone it's a secret.

Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.

Jasper shook his head. "You're like Jekyll and Hyde." "A gentleman in the streets and a freak in the bed," Irina gasped through her laughter.

He'd pulled back a little, just with his lower half, and I was afraid the scorch in my cheeks would set fire to the rest of me, because I an idea why. Wow. Oh wow.

It was only a button. It was only a bit of thread. From a wrinkled blue dress I had once undone.

I could not take my eyes off her. It was as if she were performing some trick, some sort of unfolding. There was something raw and exposed about her, as if many things had already happened between us, as if time had leapt ahead and we were already lovers.

Adults hid their pain, their fears, their failure, but adolescents hid their happiness, as if to reveal it would risk its loss.

And yet she wrote with an urgency most of us felt but did not have the courage to reveal, because we were too beholden to the traditions of the old sciences. For so long I'd felt that what I'd been trained to do in academic writing was to press my nose to the ground, and here was Nell Stone with her head raised and swiveling in all directions.

I've forgotten what gets revealed right after you break up with someone.

Brain ablaze. Feel like we are unearthing something and finding ourselves, knowing ourselves, stripping odd layers of our upbringing like old paint. Can't write about it fully yet. Don't understand it. I only know that when F leaves and B and I talk I feel like I am saying - and hearing - the first wholly honest words of my life.

WordsWorth. Darkness Visible

I have no fears today,' I scribble...I'm stunned by the truth of it.

Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.

Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don't even know I'm going.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

withholding it and disclosing it. The writer is always doing one or the other – either keeping things unknown or drip-feeding the reader with details.

He purchased that great canvas also bearing the likeness to his beloved, for he could not bear another to look upon what he dreamed each night...but as he now had enjoyed the quite singular pleasure of his wife's true form revealed to him, he knew he would have [it] returned... At one time he had thought it quite impossible, but now he understood how truly inadequate the vision cast by his mind's eye had been.

Lord, I give You permission to search my heart and mind. Please show me every day what it feels like to be my husband.

Oftentimes, God keeps his ways a secret, but when we have a grateful heart, God may open our eyes so we can see the joy we might have otherwise missed.

We are entitled to personal revelation, especially when it concerns our own or our children's lives and what has been foreordained for them. This is true whether our children number one or ten, and whether the Lord sends them to us through natural means or adoption. This is a glorious knowledge.

Now our bones are revealed like truth.

Wait until you see him up on a horse