Quotes About Revelation

The central focus of the Bible is not a set of practical-life principles. No, the central theme of the Bible is a person, Christ. If all you and I had needed was a knowledge and understanding of a certain set of God-revealed principles for living, Jesus would not have needed to come.

Denying sin makes a liar out of God and denies the message of his Word. Here's the bottom line—either God, in his Word, is true when he says that you have a problem you can't solve or you're right that you're not so bad after all. It can't be both ways.

Biblical literacy does not dispel all confusion and mystery from your life because while God reveals his will for you in the Bible, he does not reveal all the things he will do in your life for your good and his glory. God surprises you.

De wet is er niet alleen goed in om ons gedrag bloot te leggen, maar ook ons hart.

truth like this is revelation that completely changes the posture of my life.

Every year thousands of supposedly Christian young people go off to residential universities and forsake the faith. I would propose to you that they are not forsaking the faith at all. They never had it in the first place. They grew up under a system of control that forced the faith upon them, but when they get to college and the system vanishes, their true hearts reveal themselves.

No, trials expose what we have always been. Trials bare things to which we would have otherwise been blind. So, too, the teen years expose our self-righteousness, our impatience, our unforgiving spirit, our lack of servant love, the weakness of our faith, and our craving for comfort and ease.

We were meant to see more than our physical eyes can see,

All created things are signs that point us to what can be found in him. You know how this works from driving around or from taking a trip: a sign points you to a thing, but the sign is not the thing. Creation points us to the Creator, but it can never give us what the Creator can give.

Salvation understood as a revelation of our being in Christ or of our Buddha-nature is not just a wonderful revealing of what we are; it can also be a jolting kick in the pants, a transforming corrective to what we thought we were.

All religion is in daily need of reformation because all religion, in both blatant and subtle ways, seeks to make itself and its creeds, codes, and cults more important than the revelation and experience it is meant to serve and pass on.

But if salvation is a matter of revealing or embodying the deepest and already existing truth about ourselves and the world – in Christian vocabulary, that we are already children of the Divine called to wake up to and live our oneness with the Spirit – then it is indeed possible that there be other teachers and revealers who have seen and taught other aspects of the Mystery of who we are.

To believe in Jesus as the Christ means at its deepest to confess…that Jesus has an abiding and constitutive significance for the approach of the Kingdom of God and thus for the comprehensive healing of human beings…. For Christians, Jesus therefore is the decisive and definitive revelation of God."26

The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, it's impossible. Marketing meaning that in order to get people to come you can't just go, 'Hey, there's a great movie - we're not going to show you anything from it but trust us!'

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.

Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes

One day something will come through that will amaze us all.

We weren't sure we located the Gabriella until this spring." Barrett tapped a black metal box resting

The book of Revelation identifies Jesus Christ as the "Alpha and Omega" (1:8)

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible.

Art does not render what is visible, but renders visible.