Personal Revelation Quotes

#1. Temples are places of personal revelation. When I have been weighed down by a problem or a difficulty, I have gone to the House of the Lord with a prayer in my heart for answers. The answers have come in clear and unmistakable ways.

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. I promise you that, with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died

Ezra Taft Benson

#3. Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort from the scriptures. Priesthood blessings lift us and sustain us. Hope also comes from direct personal revelation, to which we are entitled if we are worthy.

James E. Faust

#4. We are entitled to personal revelation, especially when it concerns our own or our children's lives and what has been foreordained for them. This is true whether our children number one or ten, and whether the Lord sends them to us through natural means or adoption. This is a glorious knowledge.

Richard M. Eyre

#5. Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

L. Lionel Kendrick

#6. The blessings of the priesthood are available to every righteous man and woman. We may all receive the Holy Ghost, obtain personal revelation, and be endowed in the temple, from which we emerge 'armed' with power.

Sheri L. Dew

#7. When our priorities are out of order, we lose power. It takes personal revelation every day to help us prioritize and keep at bay the influences of the world that would draw us from what we are to do.

Julie B. Beck

#8. Because personal revelation is a constantly renewable source of strength, it is possible to feel bathed in help even during turbulent times.

Julie B. Beck

#9. Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

Ezra Taft Benson

#10. - But we keep on going, he continued, fostering all kinds of crazy hopes. To redeem the lost, some sliver of personal revelation. It's an addiction, like playing the slots, or a game of golf.

Patti Smith

#11. She is reading Zen, Krishnamurti, and Jung, asking herself questions she has never had the courage to explore. Suddenly, the shackles which have bound her are beginning to snap, as personal revelation replaces orthodoxy.

Terry Tempest Williams

#12. To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

L. Lionel Kendrick

#13. Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

Ken Baumann

#14. When individual members and families immerse themselves in the scriptures regularly and consistently, ... other areas of activity will automatically come. Testimonies will increase. Commitment will be strengthened. Families will be fortified. Personal revelation will flow

Ezra Taft Benson

#15. We are also told that this Spirit will enlighten our minds, fill our souls with joy, and help us know all things we should do.Promised personal revelation comes when we ask for it, prepare for it, and go forward in faith, trusting that it will be poured out upon us.

Julie B. Beck

#16. The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.

Julie B. Beck

#17. ... there was no better company for an especially personal revelation than the company of virtual strangers.

John Irving

#18. Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer, all those things didn't come from government. Our world is going to get better and better, as long as we keep the politicians from screwing it up.

David Boaz

#19. Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the values.

Justin Podur

#20. I want a real relationship, one without intimacy issues; without trust issues, but with all my emotional baggage, I don't know if that's possible.

Ella Dominguez

#21. When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.

Lisa Vidal

#22. See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ.

Les Brown

#23. Reveal to the people and make them experience God first before you make them church members

Sunday Adelaja

#24. Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Salvatore Quasimodo

#25. Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.

Rollo May

#26. No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the object of revelation to make known; still it places the existence and personal attributes of the Deity on such grounds as to render doubts absurd and atheism ridiculous.

John Herschel

#27. God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old.

Lauren Myracle

#28. Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or ... he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.

Ibn Arabi

#29. A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

Cato The Younger

#30. Encourage the women in your life - your friends, sisters, mothers, daughters - to insist on dignity and respect, to have faith in themselves, to be proud. Expect boys and men to be respectful, kind, and responsible, and don't settle for less.

Lundy Bancroft

#31. Personal ignorance should be admitted, but it should not be allowed to place limits and bounds on the ways 'and means of revelation.

Jeffrey Lang

#32. We each have moments of spiritual power, moments of inspiration and revelation. We must sink them deep into the chambers of our souls. As we do, we prepare our spiritual home storage for moments of personal difficulty.

Neil L. Andersen

#33. Am I bothered? Am I bothered though. I ain't doing nothing cause I ain't bothered.

Catherine Tate

#34. All animals are born with innocence, curiosity and love.

Anthony D. Williams

#35. God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting of mind with mind or person with person.

Sam Storms

#36. [There is a real need] to search out the real Church from age to age,... indeed a work of much labour and difficulty... The ore is precious, but it must be extracted from incredible heaps of Ecclesiastical rubbish.

Joseph Milner

#37. There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

Sidney Lumet

#38. Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

Hector Tobar

#39. I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

James McGreevey