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do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

Each is but a means to an end; in the perfected end we find the intent, and there God — not in the laws themselves, except as his means of revealing himself. For that same reason, human science cannot discover God. For human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science, it works with its back to him, and is always leaving him — his intent.

God's glory is the created brightness that surrounds God’s revelation of himself.

I finally accept that not only do I not understand the death of my relationship, but I do not need to. These men were good and kind to me, they loved me and I loved them back and the shock at the finish holds no wisdom. The revelation is not that I lost them, but that I had them.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.

From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

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

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

If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.

Inclusivism: Whereas Exclusivists regard general revelation as informative only and special revelation as both informative and salvific, Inclusivists, by contrast, regard general revelation as both informative and salvific and special revelation as even mere deeply informative and even more effectively and widely salvific!

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

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.

I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

I promise you that, with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died

I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction.

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

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.

Looking at him like that, I felt like I needed something from him, or somebody, and that probably meant that he also needed something from me, or somebody, but the revelation was like looking at spots on a slide. Knowing that it meant something to somebody wasn't the same as it meaning something to you.

Listen to the whisperings of the Spirit, the gift of revelation to which you are entitled.

Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.

More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in their footsteps, Africans are today missionaries on other continents.

One of the things Satan fears the most is that you would get the revelation of what you can do through prayer.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself

Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is more direct than every word, for it arises out of the truth of who you are. This truth is all you have ever longed for, all you have ever needed.

Reverential human acts of submission and homage before the divine Sovereign, in response to his gracious revelation of himself, and in accordance with his will.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Reverence invites Revelation

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

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

Somewhere there's a treasure that has no value to anyone but you, and a secret that's meaningless to everyone except you, and a frontier that harbors a revelation only you would know how to exploit. Why not go in search of those things?

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

The Bible is God's declaratory revelation to man containing the great truths about God, about man, about history, about salvation, and about prophecy that God wanted us to know. The Bible could be trusted just as much as if God had taken the pen and written the words Himself.

The fire of the diamond of true Identity is always there; it just needs the Master's crafting to reveal it.

The greatest revelation is stillness.

Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the Internet.

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.