Quotes About Revelation

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.

Whenever anybody whom we love dies, we discover that although death is commonplace it is terribly original. We may have thought about it all our lives, but if it comes close to us, it is quite a new, strange thing to us, for which we are entirely unprepared. It may, perhaps, not be the bare loss so much as the strength of the bond which is broken that is the surprise, and we are debtors in a way to death for revealing something in us which ordinary life disguises.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

All along the avenue, cotton candy stands, fun houses, and games of chance were tightly shuttered, like clowns without makeup.

revelation hit me like an ice-water enema.

William Hjortsberg

Revelation, which is often associated with the end of things, also speaks of new beginnings—a new name (2:17); a new Jerusalem (3:12); a new heaven and a new earth (21:1); and all things new (21:5). It reads like a description of New Year's Eve. Ring out the old; ring in the new!

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

To every created thing God has given a tongue that proclaims a future life.

And on the morning of July 18, an eight-year-old girl living in Bath chose to awaken her aunt, a devout believer in the prophecy, by screaming "Aunt, Aunt, the World's at an end!" The words so startled the poor woman that she fell into a coma, and remained insensate throughout the following day.

Whatever cracks were already there the war forced apart, and what we might otherwise have kept inside came spilling out.

I think that it wasn't so much the war as what we took into the war. Whatever cracks were already there the war forced apart, and what we might otherwise have kept inside came spilling out. You

My chosen weapon is the truth. It will set us free. Eventually.

Sometimes there is no choice but to walk into your own house. Far away, you think, and you do not want to see. You come home and you say do not tell me. You say, I have hunted the elk all over the snowfields of the Selway, and I do not want to know what happened here. And then there is a morning you walk in and take a look in your own house, like any traveler.

Here is the dirty little secret: the error rate in criminal verdicts is much higher than anyone imagines.

Secularism Secularism is a worldview that allows no room for the supernatural: no miracles, no divine revelation, no God.

Secularism is a worldview that allows no room for the supernatural: no miracles, no divine revelation, no God.

Thomas's procedure, then, may be summarized in three steps: (1) Fulfilled prophecies and miracles make it credible that the Scriptures taken together as a whole are a revelation from God. (2) As a revelation from God, Scripture is absolutely authoritative. (3) Therefore, those doctrines taught by Scripture that are neither demonstrably provable nor empirically evident may be accepted by faith on the authority of Scripture.

Sometimes you only saw yourself clearly in the eyes of those you've left, and what you saw was a horror.

Oh phosphorescence. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within — is the genius behind poetry.

I can't give people back their loved ones. I can't restore their happiness or innocence, can't give back their lives the way they were. But I can give them the truth. Then they will be free to grieve for the dead, and then free to start living again. Truth like that can be a humbling and sacred gift for a scientist to give.

Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.

I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language," Hunter wrote. "I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.