Quotes About Revelation

If we could push ajar the gates of life, And stand within, and all God's workings see, We could interpret all this doubt and strife, And for each mystery could find a key. But not today. Then be content, poor heart! God's plans, like lilies pure and white, unfold: We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart-- Time will reveal the calyxes of gold.

The idea of a secret that will be revealed always results in one of two scenarios: death and destruction, or self-discovery and recovery beyond our wildest dreams of unification. And in the greatest of sagas, both at the same time.

In the Scriptures, God appears as Father, and yet the Holy Spirit chose to reveal God's face to me as Mother." I never dreamt of calling myself holy, never presumed. Yet God, whom I called Mother, chose to grace even one as flawed as I am with the ecstasy of the Holy Spirit moving through me. And so I became the Mother's mouthpiece, a feather on Her breath. How was I to describe such a mystery to Guibert? I never sought the visions, and yet they came.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn't one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.

He fills my head with tales from the ancient forests, tales so old that the trees themselves call them legends. It is as if a veil has been lifted from my eyes, and the world I have lived in all my sixteen years is revealed to be something else entirely, something so marvelous I could never have imagined it.

Lumawoo! That is your birthday pen!

Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name! Gaara: I couldn't care less.

The mystery existing between an open moment and a person's preparedness reveals the truth.

Mein schönstes Gedicht? Ich schrieb es nicht. Aus tiefsten Tiefen stieg es. Ich schwieg es.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Rereading, we find a new book

I feel as disappointed as if I'd just opened a parcel full of ghosts.

Ne kadar farkl? görünmeye çal??san da nas?l biri oldu?un bir gün mutlaka ortaya ç?kar. (syf. 10)

An egg's true value is only known when it is broken.

Beautiful gifts sometimes come adorned in ugly wrapping.

Lightning doesn't leave you enlightened —good to know that

Indeed, one of the greatest pleasures of travelling was to find a genius hidden among weeds and bushes, a treasure lost in broken tiles, a mass of gold buried in clay, and when I did find such a person, I always kept a record with the hope that I might be able to show it to my friends.

The moment I saw the Count on TV…it was as if the room filled with color and I was able to understand things for the very first time.

The truth you seek might be covered with blood... even then would you still want to know? ~Kaname Kuran

Show me...Show me what I've forgotten...Show me what was so important...that it tore my heart in two?!

Patrick raised and lowered his eyebrows in a 'gotcha!' kind of way.

Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.

Words don't capture, they release.