Quotes About Revelation

important to do both. If I understand what the Bible means but never hear what it says to me personally, I have information without revelation. But conversely, if I disregard its original context and ignore the bits I don't like or don't understand, I will be in grave danger of abusing God's Word by confusing it with my own feelings, preferences, and prejudices.

Emily Dickinson, he "tells it slant." Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind—

Christians read the Bible not as a document from history but as a world into which they enter so that God may meet them there.

I never investigate; sometimes the most terrible thing of all is to confirm what you have only imagined.

You see this circle? The size of this circle represents everything that I know about basketball. But the size of this ball represents everything about the game that has never been discovered.

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

God did not say everything at once. The earlier communications take into account the limitations in the understanding of people at earlier times.

Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather transforms it, condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds.

always been. Just you an' me." "I saw my wife last night. In here." Hawk was talking to the floor, mostly trying to work it out in his own mind. "I saw my son... I saw Jubal... in his room across the hall." "Oh, that's why you went outside. I was wondering. You came back in smiling like I never saw you smile before

Once a computer was asked, "What is the truth?" It took a very long time before the reply came, "I will tell you a story…

Balzac's semiotics is all about detection, the need to discover who people really are.

It's not the pain that hurts,' she said, 'it's finding out that one of your idols is a real asshole.

I think part of what it means for God to "reveal" himself is to keep us guessing, to come to terms with the idea that knowing God is also a form of not knowing God, of knowing that we cannot fully know, but only catch God in part—which is more than enough to keep us busy.

When you read the Bible on its own terms, you discover that it doesn't behave itself like a holy rulebook should.

Readers who come to the Bible expecting something more like an accurate textbook, a more-or-less objective recalling of the past—because, surely, God wouldn't have it any other way—are in for an uncomfortable read. But if they take seriously the words in front of them, they will quickly find that the Bible doesn't deliver on that expectation. Not remotely.

Our experiences of God matter—those sacred moments that defy the very rational capabilities we are so keen to rely on.

Sticking to the Bible at every turn, like it's an owner's manual or book of instruction, as the way to know God misses what Paul and the rest of the New Testament writers show us again and again: the words on the page of the Bible don't drive the story, Jesus does. Jesus is bigger than the Bible. For

The Bible looks the way it does because "God lets his children tell the story," so to speak.

I hear Aslan's words to Shasta: "'Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story. . . . I tell no one any story but his own.

followers of Jesus always have and always will meet Jesus and see him from where they are and they will experience Jesus differently as a result.

whatever it means to speak of the Bible as inspired by God clearly doesn't mean the Bible is scrubbed clean of the human experience of the writers.

The Bible's diversity is the key to uncovering the Bible's true purpose for us.

I have found that the prompts to adjusting my understanding of God are all around me—literally. The very heavens are shouting them, and the word they are shouting most clearly is "mystery.

Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job all agree: the Bible doesn't capture a freeze-frame of God and bind him to it. If we get on board with this idea, some other things the Bible says about God will make more sense.