Quotes About Revelation

May God forgive you for telling the truth to those who are not ready to hear it.

Moses was such a great prophet and philosopher at the same time. He even dared to question and ask for God's real name.

Most of the geniuses have a record of being isolated from the masses—Because great ideas comes only when you're alone. Same as revelation to the prophets.

My whole life is simply a revelation.

New Revelation from Heaven: The sin is not in wine, but in drunkenness and loss of self-control or conscience. If you don't lose your awareness, which isn't guaranteed, then you're good to enjoy your wine in peace.

Nothing stays hidden forever, truth and lies will be revealed.

The beauty of the kingdom appears only to those in higher positions. To the king who has a high view over the whole city.

The Creator loves the spotlight so much that He cannot help but manifest in nature and create daily. He's always at work.

The only true prophecy is that no one knows anything about the day of judgment.

The truth lose its beauty once it's visible before your eyes.

You can imagine or pretend to know your partner, but you will still be surprised at the end of the day.

By day we may deal with the airy superstructure of our emotions, but, at three in the morning, we get down to the foundation. At night the soul claims the right to stand face to face with itself, as before some mirror placed in a pitiless light and, with unsparing eyes, seek the truth.

How many lifeless things are placed each day between us and the living earth? A friend in Brooklyn told me that his little son had gone out to watch workmen breaking up a sidewalk. He was fascinated to see earth under the cement. He had never seen it before.

Yes, I thought, now I see the earth as it really is; never again will I see things as I saw them yesterday or the day before.

La verdad es como una manta que nos deja los pies fríos. Ya puede uno tirar de ella hacia sí en todos los sentidos, que nunca nos cubrirá del todo. Sacudidla, tirad de ella, mas nunca será suficiente. Desde el día en que se viene al mundo, llorando, a aquel a quien se le entrega, agonizante, no puede hacer más que cubrirse con ella la cabeza y gemir, llorar o aullar.

We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he gradually builds out and grows up. Perhaps it's a measure of our maturity when parts of Scripture that we found odd or even repellent suddenly come up in a new light. Our sense is overtaken by a sense of the whole thing, wide, multicolored, and unspeakably powerful.

So instead of suggesting that we could escape the earth to go to heaven, Jesus's good news was about heaven coming to earth.

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.

If the Bible is not simply "revelation," neither is it simply a devotional aid, even the primary devotional aid.

According to the book of Revelation, Jesus died in order to make us not rescued nonentities, but restored human beings with a vocation to play a vital part in God's purposes for the world.

The New Testament says the Word became flesh. Sacramental theology is all about discovering, in fear and trembling, how to allow that Word to go on becoming flesh.

As St. Paul says, what matters isn't so much our knowledge of God as God's knowledge of us; not, as it were, the god we want but the God who wants us. God help us, we don't understand ourselves; how can we expect to understand that Self which stands beside our selves like Niagara beside a trickling tap?

When the women went to the tomb they met someone else and in the half light they thought it was Jesus himself. Answer: they would have noticed soon enough.

All this means that we are called to be people who learn to hear God's voice speaking today within the ancient text, and who become vessels of that living word in the world around us.