Top 100 Quotes About Revelations
#1. A lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.
Agatha Christie
#2. It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.
Rick Rubin
#3. Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
Isaac Newton
#4. [T]here [is] no limit to what might not be achieved by an alliance between an imperial monarchy and revelations, if truly believed to be heaven-sent, of a prophet.
Tom Holland
#5. Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Elizabeth Bowen
#6. It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
Agnetha Faltskog
#7. What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and to live to God? These are the pleasures - these are the spectacles - that befit Christian men.
Tertullian
#8. Electricity sparked between them at the touch, and she savored the way he made her yearn. How the crush of their lips together inspired revelations.
Katherine McIntyre
#9. Only when we seek to apply His revelations to our situations will we experience transformation.
Lysa TerKeurst
#10. Anything that's secret, clandestine, loaded with such a supercargo of speculation, misinformation, disinformation and, for that matter, accurate revelations, creates an appetite.
Charles McCarry
#12. It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.
Ann Druyan
#13. The more you try to enquire, the more it will get intriguing. That is the peculiar thing about mysteries.
You need to prove you can handle the revelations
Alcatraz Dey
#14. It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.
Henry David Thoreau
#16. Following revelations that he fathered a love child, the good Reverend Jesse Jackson - or should we say the 'very' good Reverend - is enduring the scandal with the help of family and friends. A scandal which gives clearer meaning to the Rainbow Coalition's Operation 'Push'.
Jon Stewart
#17. Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
Kate Williams
#18. Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations
Glenn Greenwald
#19. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
Oscar Wilde
#20. From the accounts of those who have had glimpses of Heaven in visions and revelations, it seems that we do mature somewhat in Heaven. Those who arrive in their youth grow to maturity, while older people appear more middle-aged, in the prime of life.
David Berg
#21. To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
H.P. Lovecraft
#22. One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers
#23. People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
Norman Finkelstein
#24. Apostles receive revelations from God, and consequently they are able to say 'This is what the Spirit is saying to the churches right now.' Making such a statement with credibility carries with it tremendous authority.
C. Wagner
#25. The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.
Joseph Silk
#26. Christ is the unparalleled and unrepeatable Revealer through whom other revelations are best understood
Thomas C. Oden
#27. Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.
Roger Ebert
#28. You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'
'REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.
Terry Pratchett
#29. In our eagerness to solve life we start out to trace its mysteries and trample God's truths as we search. As we return we discover the shattered treasures, and gladly stoop to gather up the fragments, and with them translate the revelations of the soul.
Margaret Bird Steinmetz
#30. Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.
Del Close
#31. Books in the series should be read in the following order. Moon Wreck: First Contact (Short Story) Moon Wreck: Revelations (Short Story) Moon Wreck: Secrets of Ceres (Short Story) The Slaver Wars: Alien Contact (Novel) Moon Wreck: Fleet Academy (Novel) The Slaver Wars: First Strike (Novel)
Raymond L. Weil
#32. He expresses himself not in a torrent of words and ideas and disruptions, revelations and setbacks, but through an ever-expanding capacity to face what comes next.
Derek B. Miller
#33. Saints and mystics, revelations, origin myths, and heroes' journeys, as well as ethical and spiritual guidelines, speak to us from ancient times and far-flung lands and peoples.
Sandra Harner
#34. I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.
Kid Cudi
#35. Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human culture, they are an especially appropriate symbol of the interdependence of spirit and nature.
Steven Clark Rockefeller
#36. Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn't have any power.
Joss Whedon
#37. ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed
Charles Dickens
#38. What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.
Steven Millhauser
#39. The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
Oscar Wilde
#40. The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil ... and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature ...
Henry David Thoreau
#41. Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#42. Christ is the singular embodiment of truth, infinitely plural in meaning. Christ is the sum and hidden interior meaning of all other genuine revelations of God
Thomas C. Oden
#43. When did I ever teach anything wrong from this stand? When was I ever confounded? I want to triumph in Israel before I depart hence and am no more seen. I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught. Must I, then, be thrown away as a thing of naught?
Joseph Smith Jr.
#44. Prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a flow. A poem is an instant, lightning across the sky. Prose is before the storm, the storm, after the storm.
Molly Peacock
#45. Yet the greater the turmoil inside him, the more the revelations responded to it. It was as though the Quranic voice was able to see deep inside him and address questions he was barely aware he was asking.
Lesley Hazleton
#46. Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
Sophie Swetchine
#47. The revelations of God can come to you in a state of wakefulness or in sleep
Sunday Adelaja
#48. Mountaineers, especially when alone, sometimes have very vivid hallucinations [...]. So it is interesting that the revelations received by the leaders of the world's three main religions were preceded by a period of isolation in the mountains.
Dick Swaab
#49. Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#51. How does one survive these revelations? One just lives.
Sherman Alexie
#52. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.
Stephen King
#53. Was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period,
Charles Dickens
#55. I am able to separate the mythological aspects of my religion from the practical ones. Jesus, his sacrifice, the Gospels? Those are true to me. Angels, demons, burning bushes, Revelations? Primitive people trying to express the ineffable. I don't need to be a biblical literalist to love my God.
Thomm Quackenbush
#56. Look for the silver lining in every cloud and those revelations will create the thread to weave the fabric of a renewed and joyous life.
Joy Smith
#57. Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.
Thomas Carlyle
#58. Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
Khaled Hosseini
#59. If people all over the world, year after year, request that you do 'Revelations,' you do 'Revelations.'
Judith Jamison
#61. I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.
Benjamin Disraeli
#62. [T]he rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.
William Crookes
#63. The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
Andre Malraux
#64. God works as he chooses - we have our tests and He has His revelations
Susan Fletcher
#65. I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams ... It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.
Marilyn Manson
#66. This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.
R. Scott Bakker
#67. I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder.
Brigid Schulte
#68. Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
Octavio Paz
#69. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott
Charles Dickens
#70. There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.
Dizzy Gillespie
#71. Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.
John Perry Barlow
#72. Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.
Julia Glass
#73. Islamic scholars developed a doctrine known as "abrogation" (an-Nasikh wa'l Mansukh), whereby Allah issues new revelations that supersede old ones.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#74. As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.
Robert Gottlieb
#75. It may be in the cultural particularities of people - in their oddities - that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.
Clifford Geertz
#76. *For a fuller account of the revelations of the Moscow archives, and their detailed vindication of Orwell, see my Introduction to Orwell in Spain (Penguin, 2001).
Christopher Hitchens
#77. New revelations regarding faith or morals ... have always been abhorred and challenged in the Church ... Hence, the Sovereign Pontiffs, the Councils, and the Fathers have been most careful to reject all novelties or new doctrines on matters of faith which differed from those already received.
Alphonsus Liguori
#78. Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many revelations and the spirit of prophecy; and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken, insomuch that we truly can command in the name of Jesus and the very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#79. The goal of 'Revelations' is that once it's all done and finished, and you've read all of it, it is its own story.
Greg Rucka
#80. Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.
Margaret Fuller
#81. I want to allow others to reveal and celebrate aspects of themselves that are usually hidden. My camera is a witness. It holds a light up for my subjects to help them feel their own essence, and gives them the courage to collaborate in the recording of these revelations.
Joyce Tenneson
#82. As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.
Graydon Carter
#83. Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life - but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.
Sarah Churchwell
#84. When a person assumes that his or her revelation is the only true one, it only says that this person has had very few religious revelations and hasn't realized how many there are.
Margot Adler
#85. Again, I don't fully understand my emotion response to the library or trust it. It was the site of a series of intellectual revelations that were crucial to me, not just as a student but as a human being.
Siri Hustvedt
#86. The soul faithfully comes to our aid through dreams, deep emotion, love, the quiet voice of guidance, synchronicities, revelations, hunches, and visions, and at times through illness, nightmares, and terrors.
Bill Plotkin
#87. To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
Octavio Paz
#88. When authors claim new revelations dealing with apocalyptic themes, book sales increase. Christians who chase after the sensational constantly look for keys to unlock the mysteries of the apocalypse.
Stan Newton
#89. Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships.
Andrea Barrett
#90. Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated.
Kenny Smith
#91. Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ... she knew there was nothing to fear.
Toni Morrison
#92. They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring. I
David Wong
#93. I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.
Aleksandar Hemon
#94. You want revelations engraved in gold and angels trumpeting down from heaven? But what if this is it instead? Me, telling you I love you, right here in the snow
T. Fabris
#95. Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later ... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.
Salvador Dali
#96. Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.
Neal Shusterman
#97. Cave is a good word ... The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its silence and solitude, its shrouding gloom, its sepulchral echoes, its fleeting lights, and more than all, its sudden revelations ...
Mark Twain
#98. No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#99. There has come into fashion a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing facts and all gloomy questions.
Victor Hugo
#100. State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this.
Charles Dickens
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