Revelations Quotes

• Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

  Eileen Caddy

  Positive, Inspiration, Intuition

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• The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Every Man, Highest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Men, Thinking

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Fate'.

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• Information may inform the mind, but revelation sets a heart on fire.

  Matt Redman

  Heart, Fire, Mind

  Twitter post from Nov 15, 2010

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• Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men.

  Marion G. Romney

  Prayer, Mean, Men

  Marion G. Romney (1971). “Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney”

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• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Wisdom, Philosophy

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beauty, God, Art

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.138

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• Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mystery, Wonder, Consciousness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

  Eudora Welty

  Life, Time, Order

  1984 One Writer's Beginnings, II. 'Learning to See'.

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• Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.

  Del Close

  Laughing, Connections, Made

  Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim Johnson (1994). “Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation”, Meriwether Publishing

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• Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Book, Religion

  "History of the Church", 2:52, April 22, 1834.

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  Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Mistake

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• The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

  George Washington

  Light, Influence, Christianity

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.367

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• I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Men, Rumor

  Gustave Flaubert (2005). “November: Fragments in a Nondescript Style”, Hesperus Press

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• The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Healing, Names, Miracle

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• All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Mean, Mind

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• Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Book, People

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• The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

  Jupiter Hammon

  God, Men, Mind

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

  Denis Diderot

  Religion, Different, Certainty

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading, Writing, Novelists

  "Interview with George R.R. Martin at Comicon". GeeksOn podcast (Episode 54), www.geekson.com. August 4, 2006.

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• ...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Consistency, Spirit

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

  William Blackstone

  God, Law, Two

  Sir William Blackstone, Edward Christian, John Frederick Archbold, Joseph Chitty (1827). “Commentaries on the Laws of England”, p.28

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• 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.

  Adyashanti

  Splits, Realizing, Moments

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• My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy.

  Mortimer Adler

  Philosophy, Mystery, Christianity

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• The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

  Audre Lorde

  Self, Silence, Action

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.42, Crossing Press

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