Revelations Quotes
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James -
To preach the Bible as 'the handbook for life,' or as the answer to every question, rather than as the revelation of Christ, is to turn the Bible into an entirely different book. This is how the Pharisees approached Scripture, as we can see clearly from the questions they asked Jesus. For the Pharisees, the Scriptures were a source of trivia for life's dilemmas.
Michael Horton
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do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation
Vladimir Nabokov -
I'm sorry I didn't have this revelation earlier. I sleep better and more soundly because I'm not participating anymore.
Carol Leifer -
I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God.
Sun Myung Moon -
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 The unpublished parts will appear later...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 -
A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God; but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His.
William Law -
Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.
Terence McKenna
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More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.
Keith Morris Black Flag -
My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
William E. Gladstone -
Let Beth Leonard inspire you to sail around the world, explore the high latitudes, or discover your own capacity for adventure. Each nugget in this 'dream becomes reality' series of revelations is worth a thousand pictures.
Gary Jobson -
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 -
Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.
George Amos Dorsey -
All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul
Eleonora Duse
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It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!
Katherine Cecil Thurston -
God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.
Catherine Doherty -
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
Moses Mendelssohn -
In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.
William S. Paley -
Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what we can know. The Christian word for this is revelation, and the ultimate revelation came by incarnation. ... God is the master of disguises, in order that we might see.
Richard John Neuhaus
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Faith considers that its precariousness and its finiteness are but the womb in which it abides, moving toward the plenitude and fullness of the eternity which it desires and believes in and which revelation opens to it.
Catherine Doherty -
I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder...
Brigid Schulte -
The supreme being of the Deists could be apprehended by practical investigation and the use of reason to understand natural laws. Religious faith was not needed, nor were miracles, divine inspiration, or personal revelations of God’s spirit.
Andrew Himes -
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.
William Blackstone