Quotes About Revelation

Theology is ultimately political. The way human communities deify the transcendent and determine the categories of good and evil have more to do with the power dynamics of the social systems which create the theologies than with the spontaneous revelation of truth from another quarter

Segredos são fascinantes porque foram feitos para serem revelados.

O parto é uma mentira: nós não nascemos nele. antes, já estamos nascendo. A gente vai acordando no antecedente do tempo, antes mesmo de nascer. É como a planta que, no segredo da terra, já é raíz antes de rpoclamar seu verde sobre o mundo.

Contar una historia es echar sombras a la lumbre. En ese preciso instante, todo lo que la palabra revela lo consume el silencio. Solo quien reza entregando por completo el alma sabe lo que significa ese arder y esa caída de la palabra en los abismos.

I TEGO ARCANA DEI (BEGONE! I CONCEAL THE SECRETS OF GOD.)

She was a novel whose plot became more interesting as I delved deeper into the book.

Except for carrying a sign that read I AM A SPY, Mordechai Vanunu seemed to have done all he could to expose his secret life.

The pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

You sick, twisted monster," Sabrina seethed at Pinocchio.

That woman is hiding something!" she said. "You think everyone's hiding something." "And you would hug the devil if he gave you cookies.

The more the girls heard, the more it became clear that Uncle Jake and their straight-laced father had been first-class juvenile delinquents.

If you join us, you have to be willing to give the world the truth - not because you love the world, but because you love the truth.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

Man projects his wounds upon the world, my friend. He judges everything, and in the judging he reveals himself.

Because I thought that darkness had only one or two faces. It took me a long time to learn that it has many, and that its worst face masquerades as light.

If redemption restores creation, then creation counts for more than I had ever suspected.

And anyway, when was a journal ever honest? "It either tells a lot of truths to cover a single lie," he said, "or a lot of lies to cover a single truth.

Veritaserum

Deluminator

Truth Potion

Christianity is not a religion at all, but a revelation and a rescue and an ensuing relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

So much of what's important in life seems to sneak up on me. So much time and energy invested in getting ready to go someplace, and then getting there, that the sensation of being there is a revelation.

According to Revelation, in the church's worship we should remember and honor the prophets and martyrs, not veterans and fallen warriors; faithful witnesses, not loyal patriots; the One who was slain to secure our true freedom, not the ones who killed and were killed to preserve (so it is claimed) our freedom. That this self-evident truth about worship seems so odd, so radical, simply demonstrates how comfortable the church has become in bed with the beast.

Revelation as prophecy should probably be understood as anti-assimilationist, or anti-accommodationist, literature. It is also in this sense that Revelation is resistance literature—"a thorough-going prophetic critique of the system of Roman power" and "the most powerful piece of political resistance literature from the period of the early Empire.