Quotes About Revelation

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.

Well," I said, "after years and years of painting ourselves opaque, this carries us straight back to when we were sure we were transparent." "Is that it?" "Maybe. Who knows.

The sight of a coffin going into the ground can effect a great change of heart—all at once you find you are not so disappointed in this person who is dead—but what the sight of a coffin does for the mind in its search for the truth, this I don't profess to know.

Era bajita, tal vez mediría metro cincuenta y ocho, y se quitó el suéter y me mostró las tetas, revelando el torso adolescente de una virgen de Balthus incipientemente transgresora y, por supuesto, nos acostamos.

If there was ever anything to know, now he knew he never had known it.

As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God's name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

If we cannot detect God's presence in the world, it may be that we have been looking in the wrong places.

Jesus did not eliminate evil; he revealed a God willing, at immense cost, to forgive it and to heal its damage.

What is faith, after all, but believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse

Somehow we need to reclaim the "goodnewsness" of the gospel

God is already present, in the most unexpected places. We just need to make God visible.

until recently no one could know that the little blob of light marked the presence of another galaxy, one twice the size of the Milky Way and home to half a trillion stars. Or that these next-door neighbors were but two of 100 billion galaxies likewise swarming with stars.

Revelation 12 presents Christmas from a cosmic perspective, adding a new set of images to the familiar scenes of manger and shepherds and the slaughter of the innocents.

We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him," said Abraham Joshua Heschel

and said, almost without thinking, "Well, of course, Philip, God was already present in the prison. I just had to make him visible." I have often thought of that line from Joanna, which would make a fine mission statement for all of us seeking to know and follow God. God is already present, in the most unexpected places. We just need to make God visible.

The gospel is not at all what we would come up with on our own.

The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea

How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him. And they cried out in a great voice: He made us. CS Lewis

So let me see? What do I have? Surprise! Surprise!

I felt his hardness and I suddenly understood-an older girl would have understood long before-that this was the currency of desire. He was my betrothed. he desired me. I desired him. All I had to do was tell him the truth.