Quotes About Revelation

When you talk you talk with the little lying tips of your tongues. You dont dare lay bare your real souls. . . . But now you must listen to me for the last time. . . . For the last time I say. . . . Come here waiter you too, lean over and look into the black pit of the soul of man. And Herf is bored. You are all bored, bored flies buzzing on the windowpane. You think the windowpane is the room. You dont know what there is deep black inside.

Whence but from heaven, could men unskilled in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths? Or how, or why, Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie?

the covenant relationship between Yahweh and Israel and the way Yahweh shone his light of blessing in Israel's life was designed to become a revelation to other peoples, a means of opening their eyes and releasing them from darkness.

That is exactly what we need. Eyes to see. Isn't that what Jesus offered us—clarity? Recovery of sight for the blind (Luke 4:18)? We need clarity and we need it badly. A simple prayer rises from my heart: Jesus, take away the fog and the clouds and the veil, and help me to see . . . give me eyes to really see.

I realize that many dear followers of Christ have been taught that God only speaks to his sons and daughters through the Bible. The irony of that theology is this: that's not what the Bible teaches! The Scriptures are filled with stories of God speaking to his people—intimately, personally. Adam

the rooted person is able to meditate—give sustained attention to—the revelation of God. Not swipe, not multitask. Lingering focus.

The personality of the artist leaks through their work. God included. He reveals himself through nature, as the Scriptures testify.

I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name. (Isa. 45:2–3)

Friend, Christ has bestowed on you an identity. The best thing you can do is ask him to reveal it to you.

The reason we love The Chronicles of Narnia or Star Wars or The Matrix or The Lord of the Rings is that they are telling us something about our lives that we never, ever get on the evening news. Or from most pulpits. This is our most desperate hour. Without this burning in our hearts, we lose the meaning of our days.

explored." "It is the glory of God to conceal a matter," says the book

the book of Daniel is the key to prophetic interpretation, and proper understanding of its revelation would do much to help the interpretation of other prophetic portions.

Daniel's prophetic revelation is the key to understanding the Olivet Discourse (Matt. 24–25) as well as the book of Revelation, which is to the New Testament what Daniel is to the Old.

A student of Christology needs to be constantly reminded that while there is progress in doctrine, there is no increase in scriptural revelation.

Between skin and skin there is only light. And there was my poetry.

I think he was a little like the lizard that changes color with its surroundings. He appeared far more a gentleman in a gentleman's house. In that inn, I saw him for what he was. And I knew his color there was far more natural than the other.

As if I'd lit a fire in the darkness to try and warm us. And all I'd done was to see his real face by it.

Then she did something as strange, as shocking, as if she had thrown off her clothes. She smiled.

Come clean Charles, come clean

I saw the angel in the marble and I chiseled until I set it free. —Michelangelo

Darkness cannot be directly removed, but it automatically disappears when you turn on the light.

One good thing about jail is that it allows you to think a lot.

Hearing the truth is like grabbing smoke in our family

Hearing the truth is like grabbing smoke in our family," Joel said.