Top 100 Reveals Quotes
#1. This is difficult to comprehend when one pauses to consider the character of Christ. Admittedly there have been many false caricatures of this Person, but an unbiased look at His life quickly reveals an individual of enormous compassion and incredible integrity.
W. Phillip Keller
#2. The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.
Michael Medved
#3. I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding.
Charles Dickens
#4. It's not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character.
Philip Jose Farmer
#5. The mystery existing between an open moment and a person's preparedness reveals the truth.
Masatoshi Nakayama
#6. Is that a page from the dastardly villain's diary?" Maldynado asked. "One carelessly dropped that conveniently reveals the secret to destroying these vile artifacts?" "It's an invoice." "Villains get bills?
Lindsay Buroker
#7. A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
Evan Esar
#8. That which is worth taking up is the self-enquiry that reveals jnana; that which is worth enjoying is the grandeur of the Self; that which is worth renouncing is the ego-mind; that in which it is worth taking refuge, to eliminate sorrow completely, is one's own source, the Heart.
Ramana Maharshi
#9. Depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate it squarely in the category of grave diseases.
William Styron
#10. Therefore, whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably,
James Baldwin
#11. The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.
Young-Ha Kim
#12. The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.
Charles Duhigg
#13. An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed.
David Mermin
#14. In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.
Trevor Noah
#15. Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#17. Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
St. Jerome
#18. The image of love reveals itself there; in a profoundly present absence.
Mahmoud Darwish
#20. It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.
Tim Chester
#21. Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
Seth Godin
#22. Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's guides in this great transition to the next stage of social evolution.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#23. Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.
Ram Dass
#24. Religion does not define God's character God reveals it to us in His word and in person, in His Son Jesus Christ.
Jonah Books
#25. If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.
Mark Nepo
#26. A man's inner nature is revealed by what he praises-a man is self-judged by what he says of others. Thus a man is judged by his standards, by what he considers the best. And you can't find a more crucial test. It reveals the soul.
Hugh Black
#27. Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures.
Charles Spurgeon
#28. The human quest for justice is an expression of the moral content of the fundamental laws of physics, which reveals itself in the search for a supreme law and a supreme lawmaker.
Joseph B.H. McMillan
#29. It's always easier,' he offered at last, 'when you feel these things yourself; seeing them in other people reveals just how ugly they are.
Michelle Sagara West
#30. The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.
John G. Lake
#31. Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.
Tullian Tchividjian
#32. Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal
John Frusciante
#33. Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From that moment, the merest nothing reveals His presence, and the greatness of our life depends on so little.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#34. The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
Stephen Gardiner
#35. It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them.
Pachomius The Great
#36. Boredom has a bad rap. Its true character reveals you are deep inside your comfort zone. Boredom is a docent beckoning toward the edges of a labyrinth.
Gina Greenlee
#37. Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.
Erika M. Anderson
#38. The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.
Monique Wittig
#39. The Bible reveals the Father's overall plan for the world and provides general guidelines for life. But how can we know His specific plans for us? Listening to God is essential to walking with God.
Charles Stanley
#40. Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?
Ann Leckie
#41. His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given power, if not over the entities and dyads, certainly over the ignorant and superstitious.
Richard Mitchell
#42. Josh grins. It's wide and relieved and reveals a rarely seen pair of dimples. I could live inside those dimples for the rest of my life.
Stephanie Perkins
#43. The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us.
Piet Mondrian
#44. Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.
Swami Vivekananda
#45. The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortable one.
Bill Bryson
#46. Its neat what God reveals to us when we are willing to listen and be corrected.
Amanda Penland
#47. Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#48. Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
Ram Dass
#49. Metaphor reveals a writer's true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a life.
Norman Mailer
#50. 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
#52. Social media does not change your culture, it reveals it.
Sandy Carter
#53. The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.
John Shelby Spong
#54. The more we connect ourselves like little children to our Heavenly Father, the more He reveals Himself to us and we can feel His heartbeat.
Euginia Herlihy
#55. Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.
Doris Humphrey
#56. I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is.
Max Lucado
#57. A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.
Thomas Kinkade
#58. Winter reveals the massive, complex, muscular organization of the ancient oak. Like an old man stripped of his Savile Row, tailored suit - no less impressive in his mature nakedness.
William Boyd
#59. Abject misery lies not in what the blanket reveals, but in what it hides.
Steven Erikson
#60. God wants us to know His will and He reveals it to us both through the Bible and through the guidance of His Holy Spirit. Seek God's will when you pray, and He will help you know it.
Billy Graham
#61. Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.
Gunilla Brodde Norris
#62. [The report 'World Energy Outlook 2006'] reveals that the energy future we are facing today, based on projections of current trends, is dirty, insecure and expensive.
Claude Mandil
#63. Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
Juvenal
#64. An abundance of money, alcohol, or power doesn't change you, it simply reveals who you truly are.
Rob Liano
#66. Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
Milan Kundera
#67. There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#68. The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.
Charles A. Beard
#69. Slowly, slowly, I accumulate sentences. I have no idea what I'm doing until suddenly it reveals itself, almost done.
Sarah Manguso
#70. A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.
Boris Beizer
#71. God reveals possibilities through impossibilities"! EL
Evinda Lepins
#72. If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add weapons of mass destruction to this diabolical clockwork, and you have ... a recipe for the fall of civilization.
Sam Harris
#74. The stumbling block will turn out to be the traditional one for students of consciousness: the flashlight is incapable of shining on itself, so we can't trust what its light reveals.
Jonathan Lethem
#75. Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#77. Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?
June Jordan
#78. When a person speculates about my identity, it reveals something about their own background and preferences. If the canvas is blank; the only thing people can see on its surface is themselves.
John Twelve Hawks
#79. Fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.
Helen McCloy
#81. When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful ... the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.
Ajahn Brahm
#82. Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Oscar Wilde
#83. Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot - about the world we live in, and about our own past.
Brian Christian
#84. Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.
Mark Hodder
#85. When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
Raymond Queneau
#86. The moment you start to lose focus, confidence and determination towards the things you desire to achieve in life. The whole thing reveals your hidden bone idleness.
Euginia Herlihy
#87. The way a man drinks in company tells you nothing about him, but the way he drinks when alone reveals, without his realizing it, the very depths of his soul.
Irene Nemirovsky
#89. True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.
Adyashanti
#90. God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven
that kind of distance.
Ann Voskamp
#91. What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?
Aaron B. Powell
#92. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consciousness.
Prem Prakash
#93. Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
Pat Summitt
#94. Freud's antique notion of women as diminished men is quite wrong. Biology instead reveals every man's battle to escape the woman within.
Steve Jones
#95. Thus, to take the phrases in Acts and make them into a magical incantation upon which God s forgiveness rests is to grossly misunderstand the phrase and, consequently, grossly misportray the kind of God whom Scripture reveals. Beyond
Gregory A. Boyd
#96. You leap too quickly to his defense. It reveals his true attitude, of which he has doubtless made you aware.
Roger Zelazny
#97. The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.
David Platt
#98. Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#99. That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
Ramana Maharshi
#100. That we find freedom, aliveness and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us but from what dissolves, reveals and expands us.
Eve Ensler