Quotes About Revelation

I'm shocked at how much I can talk about myself.

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

I remember walking in and seeing Patrick. I knew he was going to be in the room, but somehow, it was still shocking. I was like, you look like Patrick Stewart, because it is you!

For years I've known at some point it's very likely the shoe would drop. Maybe someone would guess that I'm trans. Maybe they would know me from my life before I transitioned.

Writing 'Redeployment' shook me in ways I never expected.

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

I want to show people that I'm not what everybody thought I was.

I'm addicted to showing people what they don't get to see, as far as the everyday lifestyle of an NBA player.

I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

I feel like God is just telling me what I need to do, and He's showing me the light.

I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.

I had not seen that until - and when it first came out I was told. I had not seen or been aware of all of that physical evidence. And when I saw it, I was horrified. It was so astounding to me to see that there was that much evidence.

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

Leaks are always bad news.

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12!

But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God. Joseph taught and encouraged his adherents to receive personal communiqués straight from the Lord. Divine revelation formed the bedrock of the religion.

The religious literature handed out by the earnest young missionaries in Temple Square makes no mention of the fact that Joseph Smith--still the religion's focal personage-- married at least thirty-three women and probably as many as forty-eight. Nor does it mention that the youngest of these wives was just fourteen years old when Joseph explained to her that God had commanded that she marry him or face eternal damnation.

The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

Between 1840 and 1844 God instructed the prophet to marry some forty women.

Emma harangued Joseph so relentlessly about his philandering that the original intent of the revelation canonized as Section 132 seems to have been simply to persuade Emma to shut up and accept his plural wives—while at the same time compelling her to refrain from indulging in any extracurricular sex herself.

Even individuals we admire can have skeletons in their closet.

In the morning he called together five trusted Mormon leaders and, "with broken spirit," informed them that God had revealed to him the necessity of relinquishing "the practice of that principle for which the brethren had been willing to lay down their lives." To the shock and utter horror of the other men in the room, President Woodruff explained that "it was the will of the Lord" that the church stop sanctioning the doctrine of plural marriage.

When this casuistry came to light