Best 120 quotes in «revelations quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.

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

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

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.

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

Reverence invites Revelation

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.

The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is God's "I Will" to every seeker for full salvation of spirit, soul and body.

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 Holy Spirit accompanies God's Word to bring revelation of Christ, resulting in transformation.

The greatest revelation is stillness.

The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.

The image I have sketched views Jesus differently: rather than being the exclusive revelation of God, he is one of many mediators of the sacred.

The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.

The relationship between looking and desire is really about the promise of revelation - the hope that the subject of your gaze will reveal something to you - whether or not that revelation is prurient. And that's really what eroticism is - the anticipation of disclosure.

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.

The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.