Quotes About Revelation

Since the police knew who killed Debbie Carter, they helpfully informed Melvin Hett.

I've killed a lot of men, Preacher, all brave soldiers on the field. You're the first coward." "Pete, no, no!" Dexter said, raising his hands and falling back into his chair, eyes wide and mouth open. "If it's about Liza, I can explain. No, Pete!

On the second day he was tortured, and confessed to everything.

The Bible is not a book of rules. The Bible reveals the God whom we serve, and we serve him gladly.

God's process of revelation required that he condescend to us, that he accommodate our humanity, that he express himself in familiar language and metaphors. It should be no surprise then that many of the common elements of the culture of the day were adopted, at times adapted, at times totally converted or transformed, but nevertheless used to accomplish God's purposes.

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet [shofar]. For the trumpet [shofar] will sound, and the dead will be raised. (1 CORINTHIANS 15:51–52)

From shadows and symbols into the truth.

If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world, and see no reflexion of its Creator.

Its home is in the world; and to know what it is, we must seek it in the world, and hear the world's witness of it.

we must determine whether on the one hand Christianity is still to represent to us a definite teaching from above, or whether on the other its utterances have been from time to time so strangely at variance, that we are necessarily thrown back on our own judgment individually to determine, what the revelation of God is, or rather if in fact there is, or has been, any revelation at all.

there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

Isn't it amazing? The Americans have so many good afterthoughts!

there was no better company for an especially personal revelation than the company of virtual strangers.

There's nothing so confusing as finding out that you don't know someone you thought you knew.

Mr. Wiggin injected a kind of horror-movie element into the Christmas miracle; to the rector, every Bible story was-if properly understood-threatening.

in the hospital, Jenny Fields felt she was making up for lost time; she was discovering that people weren't much more mysterious, or much more attractive, than clams.

This is the way confessing works—once you start, you can't stop.

When the lies of omission unravel, so does the story.

never spoke of it. He took the miracle to his grave. All Andrew ever said about the voyage was that a nun had taught him how to play mah-jongg. Something must have happened during one of their games.

It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.

You're the biggest secret I know...The only way I know what's going on with you is the only way everyone else knows it. I just have to wait and read your next book.

William was quite the hand at Couperin's Messe pour les couvents, too, and Alice had been right about the Christmas section from Handel's Messiah. As for the seduced parishioner, the military man's young wife, Jack's mother told him little—only enough that the boy assumed his father hadn't been asked to leave Kastelskirken for flubbing a refrain.

every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance toward the innocent

SOON! NAM SOON!" All the children threw themselves on the floor—they covered their ears, they shut their eyes. "NOW I KNOW WHY MY VOICE NEVER CHANGES," Owen said to me. "DO YOU SEE WHY?" he asked me.