Quotes About Revelation

Dime cómo mueres y te diré quien eres.

He was drunk, but this was something he'd thought about for a long time and needed no sobriety to express—just a listener.

I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature.

The truth is terrible: describing is destroying.

Those of us who think God addresses us by means of external events are wrong, as naive as children. For he whispers directly into our innermost souls.

miasteczko Cz?stochów. Roch wyja?nia mu, troch? s?owami, troch? na migi, ?e ta nazwa bierze si? st?d, i? ?wi?ty przybytek w nim si? znajduj?cy cz?sto chowa si? oczom grzeszników, i trzeba dobrze wyt??y? wzrok, ?eby go dojrze? w?ród ?agodnych wzgórz.

Do not leave any unexplained, unnarrated situations, any closed doors; kick them down with a course.

As long as people don't find out how awful and abominable man can be to fellow man, their innocence will be left intact.

Czasami, gdy Cz?owiek do?wiadcza Gniewu, wszystko wydaje si? oczywiste i proste. Gniew zaprowadza porz?dek, pokazuje ?wiat w oczywistym skrócie, w Gniewie powraca te? dar Jasno?ci Widzenia, o który trudno w innych stanach.

eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality—its inexpressibility.

What a methodology! It is tacitly assumed that people don't know themselves, but that if you furnish them with questions that are bright enough, they'll be able to figure themselves all out. They pose themselves a question, and they give themselves an answer. And they'll inadvertently reveal to themselves that secret they know nothing of. And that other assumption, which is terribly dangerous—that we are constant, and that our reactions can be predicted.

I do not apologise for baring my soul (though I did not intend to)

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

I should like to see any man's biography with corrections and emendations by his ghost. We don't know each other's secrets quite so well as we flatter ourselves we do. We don't always know our own secrets as well as we might.

An old author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his early years.

Si hubiera sospechado lo que se oye después de muerto, no me suicido.

The Pringles had been married less than a week. Though she would have claimed to know about him everything there was to be known, she was now beginning to wonder if she really knew anything.

Soudain la mer s'est répandue devant mes yeux et j'ai eu la sensation qu'on ouvrait mon cerveau pour le laisser libre de s'étendre après des jours entiers dans un Tupperware.

The book of the cosmos (the world, St Augustine says, is a 'first Bible') and that of the Scriptures match each other, since they have the same author. Both of them find their full revelation in Christ who, after writing them, made them his body and his face. The incarnate Logos frees the speechless tongue of creation and unites it with the world as logos alogos

once it has been granted that the Scriptures have God himself for their author, we must necessarily believe that the person who is asking questions of nature and the person who is asking questions of the Scriptures are bound to arrive at the same conclusions. Origen Commentary on Psalm 1,

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as arent afraid of truth.

Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.

When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for the first time.

The fact is that without God, we cannot know God. For a start, we are incapable of knowing God by ourselves, so he has to disclose himself—in revelation. But beyond that, God is a person and not an object, so if we are to know him, he must keep on showing himself to us—in relationship. Knowing God therefore begins and ends with God, and it is a gift whose name is grace.