Revelations Quotes - Page 13

• All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

  E. B. White

  Communication, Writing, Escaping

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.

  Georges Braque

  Self, Perfect, Harmony

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• The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  Martin Luther (1830). “A Commentary on Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.402

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• If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.

  John Owen

  Scripture, Agree, Ifs

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• Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Fate, Men, World

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• Going forward with our service and work is an important way room qualify for revelation. In my study of the scriptures I have noted that most revelation to the children of God comes when they are on the move, not when they are sitting back in their habitations waiting for the Lord to tell them the first step to take.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Moving, Waiting

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

  Bob Hoskins

  Spirit, Transformation, Christ

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• It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Lying, Men

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• At 24 I decided that my life is enough for me, and I stopped looking for some other piece to complete it. I also learned how to needlepoint ironic cross-stitches of rap lyrics and gave them to my friends as presents. I’ll let you decide which is the more important revelation.

  Taylor Swift

  Rap, Ironic, Important

  "Tell Us About Yourself(ie): Taylor Swift". Interview with Reggie Ugwu, www.buzzfeed.com. November 11, 2014.

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• I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Christian, Views, Important

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• Our Lord Christ Himself strikes down our enemies through us, or in company with us. For he who eats Christ's flesh and drinks His blood abides with Christ and He in him. Therefore, when we overcome the enemies, it is the blood of Christ which overcomes, as it is written in Revelation: 'and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb'

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Blood, Enemy

  Lorenzo Scupoli (1978). “Unseen Warfare: The Spiritual Combat and Path to Paradise of Lorenzo Scupoli”, p.225, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• When we become incorruptible and immortal, and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the Lord (as Scripture says), gaining fulfillment in the purest contemplations of His visible theophany which will illuminate us with its most brilliant rays, just as it illuminated the disciples at the time of the most divine Transfiguration.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Blessed, Light

  "The Triads".

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• Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

  Christopher Dawson

  Falling In Love, Men, Feelings

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• 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.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Spring, Apes, Curious

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959). “The Ape in Me”

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• But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Sleep, Reality, Darkness

  William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, p.205, SteinerBooks

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• The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true revelation of his word, explaining it to every heart, unfolding it in every moment.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Book, Writing, Heart

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• The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is, and knowing that a thing is not.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Believe, Self, Knowing

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• It is important for the apologist who desires to be obedient to the Word of God in defending the faith to pay special attention to the fact that throughout Scripture, God's veracity is not defended, but accepted from the outset on His authority. Unless we have more wisdom than that contained in the revelation of God, we should take the same attitude.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Attitude, Special, Important

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• What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that holiness requires. The cross was his means of redeeming lost sinners and reconciling them to himself, but it was also a profound disclosure of his mercy. It is, in Paul’s words, an ‘inexpressible gift’ that leads us to wonder and worship, to praise and adore the God who has given himself to us in this way.

  David F. Wells

  Mean, Character, White

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• The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Book, Symbols, Written

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1921). “The Harp of God: Proof Conclusive that Millions Now Living Will Never Die; a Text-book for Bible Study Specially Adapted for Use of Beginners; with Numerous Questions and Scripture Citations ...”

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• What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Use, Ifs

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• 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.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Joy, Today, Lord

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• We believe that all men are the spirit children of God, created in his image. This concept is supported by the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Children, Believe, Men

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• Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.

  Matthew Henry

  Bible, Christian, Heart

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Bible commentary - Gospel of Matthew”, p.630, Bible Study Books

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• Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Kissing, Love Is, Discovery

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