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We have all probably heard the phrase, ’The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.’ Could we also apply that to God Almighty? I believe we can. The Bible clearly teaches that God changes not. So, how He interacted with mankind during troublesome times in the past is most likely a great indicator of how He will manifest Himself again in future biblical events.

We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact. There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny, or to doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel. In England itself, it is punished by boring through the tongue with a red-hot poker. In America it is not much better; even in our Massachusetts, which, I believe, upon the whole, is as temperate and moderate in religious zeal as most of the States, a law was made in the latter end of the last century, repealing the cruel punishments of the former laws, but substituting fine and imprisonment upon all those blasphemies upon any book of the Old Testament or New. Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any arguments for investigation into the divine authority of those books? Who would run the risk of translating Volney's Recherches Nouvelles? Who would run the risk of translating Dupuis? But I cannot enlarge upon this subject, though I have it much at heart. I think such laws a great embarrassment, great obstructions to the improvement of the human mind. Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws... but as long as they continue in force as laws, the human mind must make an awkward and clumsy progress in its investigations. I wish they were repealed. {Letter to Thomas Jefferson, January 23, 1825}

You can always tell more about a person when they are dealing with an emotional crisis. The veils are lowered...they become more transparent...and they reveal the true essence of who they are......

After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul

All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

When John accuses "evildoers" of leading gullible people into sin, what troubles him is what troubled the Essenes: whether—or how much—to accommodate pagan culture. And when we see Jesus' earliest followers, including Peter, James, and Paul, not as we usually see them, as early Christians, but as they saw themselves—as Jews who had found God's messiah—we can see that they struggled with the same question. For when John charges that certain prophets and teachers are encouraging God's people to eat "unclean" food and engage in "unclean" sex, he is taking up arguments that had broken out between Paul and followers of James and Peter about forty years earlier—an argument that John of Patmos continues with a second generation of Paul's followers. For when we ask, who are the "evildoers" against whom John warns? we may be surprised by the answer. Those whom John says Jesus "hates" look very much like the Gentile followers of Jesus converted through Paul's teaching. Many commentators have pointed out that when we step back from John's angry rhetoric, we can see that the very practices John denounces are those that Paul had recommended.

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.

All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.

Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

an artist is always seeking revelation.

Are you ready for some real revelation knowledge....you are god

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

Because personal revelation is a constantly renewable source of strength, it is possible to feel bathed in help even during turbulent times.

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.

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.

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

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

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

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.