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Quotes About Revelation

the gift of revelation through the Holy Ghost is a gift of God unto "all those who DILIGENTLY seek him," and
~ Unknown
Defected Russian Intelligence officers have revealed that World War II was fomented and used by the Russian leaders as an important part of the long-range strategy for the expansion of World Communism.
~ Unknown
All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie.
~ W. H. Auden
Y dijieron uno al otro: He aquì viene el soñador.
~ Unknown
The fact that no material from brahminical Hindu scriptures or the Qur'an is included is easily explained. Either it could result in the charge that the Gurus were merely plagiarists or to the assertion that they did accept the authority of these scriptures. What they certainly were is eclectic in their view of scripture, refusing to claim that God spoke only through the revelation that was given to them.
~ Unknown
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~ Unknown
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The numerals of Pythagoras," says Porphyry, who lived about 300 A.D, "were hieroglyphic symbols, by means whereof he explained all ideas concerning the nature of things," and the same method of explaining the secrets of nature is once again being insisted upon in the new revelation of the "Secret Doctrine," by H. P. Blavatsky.
~ Unknown
Surely some revelation is at hand.
~ W.B. Yeats
I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes, But when this soul, its body off, Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows, And give his own and take his own And rule in his own right; And though it loved in misery Close and cling so tight, There's not a bird of day that dare Extinguish that delight.
~ W.B. Yeats
I would like to have great iron claws, and to put them about the pillars, and to pull and pull till everything fell into pieces. Jerome. I don't see what good that would do you. Paul Ruttledge. Oh, yes it would. When everything was pulled down we would have more room to get drunk in, to drink contentedly out of the cup of life, out of the drunken cup of life.
~ W.B. Yeats
I know now that revelation is from the self, but from that age-long memoried self, that shapes the elaborate shell of the mollusc and the child in the womb, that teaches the birds to make their nest; and that genius is a crisis that joins that buried self for certain moments to our trivial daily mind.
~ W.B. Yeats
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
~ W.H. Auden
Drama is based on the Mistake.
~ W.H. Auden
For the others, like me, there is only the flash Of negative knowledge, the night when, drunk, one Staggers to the bathroom and stares in the glass To meet one's madness
~ W.H. Auden
But round your image there is no fog, and the Earth can still astonish.
~ W.H. Auden
It is through you that God has chosen to show me my beatitude.
~ W.H. Auden
A critter reveals his true self at midnight.
~ Unknown
He's hit it fat.... It will probably be short.... It just hit the front edge of the green.... It's got no chance.... It's rolling toward the cup.... Well I'll be damned!
~ Jimmy Demaret
We're all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there's more to me than that. I just haven't had the chance yet to show it.
~ Jessi Kirby
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
~ Moliere
There are a lot of things that American fans don't know about me yet! I would say they don't know me at all, but I guess that's great because now I have the chance to surprise them and make friends.
~ Omar Chaparro
Sometimes I like to get drunk and buy things on the internet, and then I wake up the next day and find 'em on my doorstep, and it's like Christmas. I get excited.
~ Marilyn Manson
What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
~ James Russell Lowell