Quotes About Revelation

#1. Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

James Jackson Jarves

#2. I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I found I was thinking about a number of themes, one of which has to do with politics and religion.

Elaine Pagels

#3. Crystal-clear revelation struck Zane like a bolt of summer lightning, sizzling through the chill of February air.

Abigail Roux

#4. Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

Norman G. Finkelstein

#5. If you have never tasted a braised vegetable, you'll find it is a revelation.

James Beard

#6. The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

Baal Shem Tov

#7. CHAPTER XX. THE MINISTER IN A MAZE CHAPTER XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY CHAPTER XXII. THE PROCESSION CHAPTER XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#8. When apostasy comes, it is because the spirit of revelation departs from us. The wire is broken between us and the source of truth. We cannot understand, though truth be spoken, since we are not possessed of the spirit of truth. We misunderstand and misinterpret.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#9. As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.

Richard Whately

#10. I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil."

George Saunders

#11. The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

John Quincy Adams

#12. [T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.

Joseph Sobran

#13. My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

John Astin

#14. Art is the clothing of a revelation

Joseph Campbell

#15. Create the bounty of madness in your heart (of His love)

Not by intelligence alone will you reach to the truth."

(For if the mind is not enlightened by revelation,

It is better to remain an ignorant one.)

Jalaluddin Rumi

#16. He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness.

John Green

#17. After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.

Timothy Leary

#18. Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belaboured by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon.

Jorge Luis Borges

#19. She came to find me. She came to find me," Blake said. His voice was a mixture of revelation and revulsion. "Do you think, Cole, that I could love her? Could I have a life with her?

Debra Anastasia

#20. The reason that almost half of Mark's sixteen chapters describe the final period of Jesus' ministry is that it is in his suffering, death and resurrection that the revelation of God in Christ is most clearly seen.

William L. Lane

#21. In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.

Yann Martel

#22. Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.

Matthew Henry

#23. Mohammed and the pope have this principle of religion in common: they pretend that Scripture does not contain perfect doctrine, and that they receive a higher revelation from the Spirit. The

John Calvin

#24. What this means is that if you want to grow up and feast on the fullness of God's revelation, you don't do it by jumping from milk to meat. You do it by the way you drink the milk. The milk has to make you a certain kind of discerning person before you can digest the meat.

John Piper

#25. When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.

William H. Hunt

#26. Prayer is the atmosphere of revelation, in the strict and central sense of that word. It is the climate in which God's manifestation bursts open into inspiration.

Peter Forsyth

#27. I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.

Greg Bryk

#28. I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#29. That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

Kim Edwards

#30. To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

H.L. Mencken

#31. The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

Audre Lorde

#32. I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

John McGahern

#33. Selah Moments: those times we lean into God's presence, hear His voice, and willingly receive the golden nuggets of truth-revelation He gifts us with.

Jo Ann Fore

#34. McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.

Clive Sinclair

#35. The Old Testament cannot give us a total revelation of God by itself. We need the New Testament to understand the full revelation.

Paul Silway

#36. The picture must be ... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.

Mark Rothko

#37. Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.

Joseph Hertz

#38. People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.

Carl Jung

#39. We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!

Jerry A. Coyne

#40. The prophecy, "The Revelation of Christ" is about mankind's journey into a darker reality and then our quest to create a light based reality. We can only create a light based reality when we have re-created our collective spirit to make it strong enough to hold light.

Phoenix

#41. Sincere desire and worthiness invite the spirit of revelation into our lives.

David A. Bednar

#42. We're all taught from a young age that there are only two choices: pink or blue, Bratz or Power Rangers, cheerleading or football. We see gender in two dimensions because that's what society has taught us from birth. But, are you ready for a shocking revelation?
SOCIETY NEEDS TO CHANGE.

Jeff Garvin

#43. Scripture is a guide for conduct as well as the source of doctrine. Seven times in the book of Revelation we read this phrase: "He who has an ear, let him hear" (2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22). What we read in this book should govern our conduct.

David Jeremiah

#44. I'm interested that light has thingness itself, so it's not something that reveals something about other things you're looking at, but it becomes a revelation in itself.

James Turrell

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

N. T. Wright

#46. ...the revelation that the dream was teaching the dreamers how to live.

Joan Didion

#47. Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.

Northrop Frye

#48. We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust Him to live out His life in in that particular.

Watchman Nee

#49. Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#50. Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind

Benjamin Franklin

#51. The Revelation has vindicated the existence of God; and the light of the of the Luminous Form of Muhammad is enough and the most reliable to discover the Truth. The knowledge of the existence of God is the only and the ultimate Truth. Al-haqq of Hallaj refers to that Truth.

Gilani Kamran

#52. Life-shaping institutions tend to start with an idea or revelation. They often become mostly about the preservation and expansion of authority, something they relinquish only with the greatest reluctance.

Ron Suskind

#53. How can we know ourselves by ourselves? ... Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.

James Hillman

#54. Let's begin with a simple assumption. Since God has a will for us, He must want us to know it. If so, then we could expect Him to communicate it to us in the most obvious way. And how would that be? Through the Bible, His revelation.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#55. I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

Megan Fox

#56. Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

Christopher Dawson

#57. Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

Rebecca West

#58. We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer.

Matt Chandler

#59. There are restrictions to entering heaven. The Scripture says: "Nothing impure will ever enter [heaven], nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life" [Revelation 21:27 NIV].

Billy Graham

#60. To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed

Christopher Paolini

#61. Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.

Robin Skelton

#62. You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.

Stanley Crouch

#63. Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#64. Eyes are wonderful! Revelation is more wonderful! Eyes deceive you; revelation does not. Eyes evaluate; revelation is certain. God gives everyone eyes; revelation is reserved for those who pursue him for it.

Ron Brackin

#65. Theology is the systematic inquiry into Scripture. Theology is a human attempt to make sense of and draw conclusions from God's special revelation.

Perry G. Downs

#66. Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.

Noam Shpancer

#67. When man has reached the periphery of the spiderweb of his own reason and logic, he can find the ropes of revelation upon which he can climb upward forever and ever.

Neal A. Maxwell

#68. If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually contribute to the betterment of the world.

Maria Montessori

#69. The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.

Simon Greenleaf

#70. God began by revelation to build a bridge between Himself and people.

Billy Graham

#71. Decide now to enter heaven one day from a life of fullness and walking in depth of revelation of his love, instead of crawling over the line beaten and bruised and discouraged.

Lana Vawser

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

L. Lionel Kendrick

#73. Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#74. Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself.

Rajneesh

#75. Until the truth becomes revelation and the word becomes flesh in us, it is still not ours, we can't walk in it

Sunday Adelaja

#76. Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?

Gene Fowler

#77. Revelation is always measured by capacity.

Margaret Barber

#78. Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.

Israelmore Ayivor

#79. But, even in this concrete relationship to the Son of God become man, this is really something new only in so far as it expresses the revelation of what began to be true with the Incarnation and has never since ceased to be true.

Karl Barth

#80. No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John.

Jurgen Moltmann

#81. For readers, one of life's more electrifying discoveries is that they ARE readers--not just capable of doing it...but in love with it...The first book that does that is never forgotten, and each page seems to bring a fresh revelation, one that burns and exalts...

Stephen King

#82. The Lord showed me by vision and revelation what would happen if we did not stop this practice ... all ordinances would be stopped ... many men would be made prisoners ... I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write ...

John Andreas Widtsoe

#83. One day I have a revelation. 'I think we're actually quite compatible,' I tell him. 'You're irritable, and I'm irritating.

Pamela Druckerman

#84. For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

Abe Fortas

#85. Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams
I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.

Susan Cohn Rockefeller

#86. Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#87. Miracles sometimes look like a kapow! lightning-strike revelation; and sometimes miracles look like showing up for your counseling appointments.

Sarah Bessey

#88. Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.

J.M. Coetzee

#89. The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.

Swami Vivekananda

#90. The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically , as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

Northrop Frye

#91. Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.

Randy Pausch

#92. Many roads open pathways to authenticity. For some it is disciplined practice, for others revelation, for others service. Regardless of how we get in touch with authenticity or how authenticity gets in touch with us, the engagement is ongoing and forever challenging.

Rob Terry

#93. Janie full of that oldest human longing - self-revelation.

Zora Neale Hurston

#94. Well, it wasn't no revelation to me cause I always knew she was a freak.

Truman Capote

#95. To have a survey is to have a revelation on the happenings

Sunday Adelaja

#96. You have no right to run me out of here!"

"Yes, I do, because it's my house. I live here now."

He could have dropped his pants and taken a shit on the coffee table and it wouldn't have shocked her as much as that revelation.

"What?

Tymber Dalton

#97. Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Max Ernst

#98. The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#99. we come to the origin of the universe through some kind of deduction from the things that we see, or we look to the supernatural revelation that God gives us, which antedates the material universe as we know it.

R.C. Sproul

#100. I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

Rick Riordan