Top 100 Quotes About The Revelation
#1. Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one.
Watchman Nee
#2. Except you.
The revelation was so blindingly sudden the words almost slipped out, and she had to bit her tongue and look away. pg 391, A Matter of Magic
Patricia C. Wrede
#3. The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#4. One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#5. She pushed the revelation about Dr. Kruger into a side pocket of her mind, to be examined more thoroughly another time. Who would ever have suspected that he was shy? That any grownups were, for that matter, and especially a person as important as a doctor?
Beverly Butler
#6. 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
#7. If we had the right sense of our position in the world, if to compare were inseparable from to live, the revelation of our infinitesimal presence would crush us. But to live is to blind ourselves to our own dimensions ... ==========
Anonymous
#8. The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news with the revelation that four Sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Melissa Harris-Perry
#9. There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#10. Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers
#11. God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
#12. The revelation of kindness hurts worse than cruelty. There is no way to equal it. Nowhere to put her gratitude, and so it thrashes in her body.
Emily Ruskovich
#13. It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one, like scent. I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St John. They look like fragments of heaven. I think the emerald is more beautiful than any of them.
George Eliot
#14. One of the things Satan fears the most is that you would get the revelation of what you can do through prayer.
Karen Wheaton
#15. He had that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of sentiment, the tyrannies of art, and always a certain contempt for social conventions, that seduces or exasperates them.
Gustave Flaubert
#16. All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.
John Stott
#17. The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.
Carl Safina
#18. As God's revelation, Jesus is at the same time the revelation of the human nature and of the destiny of man.
Wolfhard Pannenberg
#19. ROM16.25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
Anonymous
#20. Essentially all religions include decisive truths and mediators and miracles, but the disposition of these elements, the play of their proportions, can vary according to the conditions of the revelation and of the human receptacles of the revelation.
Frithjof Schuon
#21. Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.
Richard Of Saint Victor
#22. Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
Lajos Kossuth
#23. Spirit of love and communion, give me grace to understand the mind of Christ. Let me do his will by obedience to the revelation of the Father's will that all of us be "one body." I cannot understand the depths of this mystery. Give me the grace to love it.
The Merton Institute For Contemplative Living
#24. I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize
Leonard Nimoy
#25. To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
Philip Schaff
#26. Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.
Sylvia Plath
#27. All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul
Eleanora Duse
#28. A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.
Sid Grossman
#29. And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.
Diane Arbus
#30. It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.
J. Budziszewski
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. He was sorry, genuinely sorry, for the pain she was in. Yet the revelation had caused certain other feelings - feelings he usually kept under tight rein, considering them both misguided and dangerous - to flex inside him, to test their strength against their restraining bonds.
Robert Galbraith
#35. The revelation of God's grace contained in Romans delivers believers from a performance mentality - which bases relationship with God on our own efforts - to a total trust and reliance upon the Lord, His goodness, and grace.
Andrew Wommack
#36. The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.
Jon Krakauer
#37. Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.
Patti Smith Just Kids
#38. A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.
Charles Spurgeon
#39. 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
#40. Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#41. ...the revelation that the dream was teaching the dreamers how to live.
Joan Didion
#42. 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
#43. Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.
Joseph Hertz
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
Lord Acton
#48. Where I'm just sort of shocked into the revelation, once again, of this planet is a living organism; this living thing, being alive, is a living thing. It's every breath you take. That was the last one. It'll never come back. You are riding on this wave of awareness, second to second to second.
Daphne Zuniga
#49. True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.
Robert McKee
#50. 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.
Paul F. Knitter
#51. What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?
Graham Greene
#52. Which each person must experience himself as the revelation that our old man, sinful nature, is dead and now we are living the life of the resurrected Christ.
Sunday Adelaja
#53. With the evolution of online retail, however, has come the revelation that being able to recategorize and rearrange products on the fly unlocks their real value.
Chris Anderson
#54. It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#55. The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it.
Ramana Maharshi
#56. It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense of itself, which has no subject, which means absolutely nothing from the logical point of view ... should speak so strongly in us ... that we feel compelled to paint ...
Giorgio De Chirico
#57. You wouldn't want them to know that in your heart, you are proud, and maybe even haughty, and are riven by thoughts the revelation of which would show everyone how deeply Not Nice you are.
Claire Messud
#58. Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.
Robert Barclay
#59. Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'
Phillips Brooks
#60. Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.
Francis Collins
#61. However the revelation of the knowledge of God in nature is not sufficient for salvation. Actually the revelation of God in nature only condemns the unconverted sinner.
Martin Murphy
#63. The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there is not a square inch of ground in heaven or on earth or under the earth in which there is peace between Christ and Satan.".
Gary North
#64. Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
Stephen Sondheim
#65. Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's service.
Joseph Hertz
#66. All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.
Sathya Sai Baba
#67. Perhaps the real therapy occurred at the deathbed scene, when they moved into honesty with the revelation that they were fellow travelers, both simply human, all too human.
Irvin D. Yalom
#68. Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.
James Turrell
#69. Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#70. She kissed his lips then. They tasted of apples and cheese, of the revelation of things you never imagined going so well together. She tasted meting ice cream, too, melting defenses, herself melting into Russell.
Stephanie Perkins
#71. Man has rejected the revelation of the Bible concerning the true and living God of his fathers, and he has substituted gods of his own making. In actuality modern man has decided to dethrone God and enthrone himself in all of his nuclear glory.
Billy Graham
#72. You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.
Umberto Eco
#73. I didn't get anything from holding onto those handles," Rick said. "Mercer talked to me but it didn't help. He doesn't know any more than I do. He's just an old man climbing a hill to his death."
"Isn't that the revelation?"
Rick said, "I have that revelation already.
Philip K. Dick
#74. For the righteous, the revelation is a joyous event, the realization of a divine truth. But for the wicked, revelations can be far more terrifying, when dark secrets are exposed and sinners are punished for their trespasses.
Emily Thorne
#75. Biblical Theology ... is that part of Exegetical Theology which deals with the revelation of God in its historic continuity ... Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than the exhibition of the organic progress of supernatural revelation in its historic continuity and multiformity.
Geerhardus Vos
#76. Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.
Elie Wiesel
#77. Sense of Wonder ( ... ) may be defined as a shift in perspective so that the reader, having been made suddenly aware of the true scale of an event or venue, responds to the revelation with awe.
John Clute
#78. Many new believers stay immature because they never progress beyond the revelation that they are sinners saved by grace.
Bill Johnson
#79. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
Phillips Brooks
#80. Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do to find time." You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
#81. I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.
James Turrell
#82. In practice I regarded prayer as somehow more spiritual than sitting on a committee, preaching as more anointed than plumbing. Only the revelation of Christ's Humanity infused vigor into my bloodless theoretical doctrine.
Mark Shea
#83. God reveals Himself to us through Scripture and His creation; if we can't discern His will, the revelation serves no-purpose. Thus, God has given us knowledge (Proverbs 2:6). Since humans have limited capacity for all knowledge, He has also given us the ultimate gift--faith.
Samuel C. Tseng
#84. Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.
Gavin Bryars
#85. The Revelation Of God's Words Establishes His Glory
Sunday Adelaja
#86. I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
Gustave Flaubert
#87. St John from the book of The Revelation
"He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark.
Joseph M. Chiron
#88. For not the revelation of God, but the expounders of that revelation, are responsible for the diversities of Christendom: the fault rests with the fallen and corrupt nature of man, which so affects him that he cannot clearly discern truth even when it is set before his eyes.
G. H. Pember
#89. The revelation of Christ, for which our souls thirst, thrills us increasingly as we more clearly understand who He is in all His fullness and what He accomplished to reconcile us to Himself.
Dave Hunt
#90. If the question was did we want to delay the revelation? ... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit.
William Mapother
#91. There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience ...
John Owen
#92. The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.
Bill Johnson
#93. The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
Harold Rosenberg
#94. And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty ... And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.
Aime Cesaire
#95. But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.
William Irwin Thompson
#96. All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
Claude Monet
#97. Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
Boris Pasternak
#99. A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.
Max F. Perutz
#100. The revelation of God is the fuel for the fire of our worship
Matt Redman
