Quotes About Revelation

There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.

Finally, Sacred Tradition is also necessary because some truths of the faith are expressed in a completely definite form in Scripture, while others are not entirely clear and precise and therefore demand confirmation by the Sacred Apostolic Tradition.

A secret that has been buried too long, eating a hole in me, worms its way to the surface, like a swimmer who can't hold his breath any longer.

Those eyes, hidden deep in that hooded cloak, could penetrate subterfuge and dissimulation as easily as X-rays penetrated flesh and illuminated the bones for all to see.

I know the answer now, but I'm so frightened I've forgotten the question.

The value of a secret depends upon whom you're trying to keep it from.

I've heard it said that you can discover how you feel about someone when you watch them sleeping. You see things you don't look for at other times. The elegance of an open mouth, the absence of anxiety, the vulnerability of each breath, a small vein pulsing beneath her pale skin.

You do not understand yet what you will understand in the end .

In a deep psychological sense, we have no self unless we have a secret. We grab for them whenever we begin losing ourselves in our social group or work or marriage. We reassert our identity as somebody apart.

He once told me he didn't like to meet people he admired because they invariably disappointed in person.

Sometimes when I start a sentence with no idea where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way.

Oliphant plays with images of windows and mirrors, translucence and opacity, the present and the past.

Covering the truth is placing blindfolds over the eyes of christ

Truth is the mirror that reflects our errors and brings them to the light

As often as not, he surprised himself. "What did I say?" he would ask after getting severe blowback.

The more acute the stress, the more active the leakers, the bigger the story.

Michael Wolff

Almost all the professionals who were now set to join him were coming face to face with the fact that it appeared he knew nothing.

He knew where this Russia stuff was coming from, and if these Obama people thought they were going to get away with it they had another think coming. He would expose them all!

The Koran presents Allah as being forever hidden from humanity. The Bible presents Jehovah as drawing near and seeking us out.

I like Alice Cooper too, even after I learned that she is a he.

I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.

quizás la verdadera naturaleza del arte fuese revelar mundos soñados, mundos imposibles, y que eso era algo a lo que yo nunca me había aproximado, algo de lo que jamás me había sentido capaz; comprendí también que la ironía, lo cómico, el humor debían morir, porque el mundo futuro era el mundo de la felicidad, y allí ya no habría sitio para ellos.