Revelations Quotes - Page 15

• No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Rome, Judging

  "How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture".

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• The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Church, Lasts

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• The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if the big bang - the process, event, or happening that brought the universe into existence - started off the universe in an extraordinarily special, highly ordered state of low entropy.

  Brian Greene

  Memories, Past, Special

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.175, Vintage

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• The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.

  Tim LaHaye

  Book, Moon, Light

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• Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.

  Shashi Deshpande

  Real, Mirrors, Self

  Shashi Deshpande (1989). “That Long Silence”, p.1, Penguin Books India

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• I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.

  Dafydd ap Gwilym

  Inspirational, Life, Mirrors

  "Bards and Heroes" by Carl Lofmark, Felinfach: Llanerch, (p. 96), 1989.

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• What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dark, Simple, Illumination

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.361, Wordsworth Editions

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• What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Truth, Thinking

  Time Enough for Love (p. 264)

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• Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Believe, People, Special

  Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• Sharing revelations is easier when it doesn't matter.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Matter, Easier

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.399, Scholastic Inc.

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• We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Needs, Speech, Born

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• 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.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Meaning Something, Knowing, Slides

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.227, Scholastic Inc.

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• By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.

  Albert Hofmann

  Reality, Discovery, Meditation

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• Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mercy, Adam, Middle

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.162, Penguin

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• In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

  John Quincy Adams

  Knowledge, Light, Historical

  John Quincy Adams (1848). “Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings”, p.20

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• The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ... We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life. Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Men, Sea

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• They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Personality, Demonstration

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Biblical Theology...is that part of Exegetical Theology which deals with the revelation of God in its historic continuity...Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than the exhibition of the organic progress of supernatural revelation in its historic continuity and multiformity.

  Geerhardus Vos

  Biblical, Progress, Exhibitions

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• Maurice has been a revelation, on and off the field.

  Alexi Lalas

  Fields, Has Beens, And Off

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• My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with the understanding that it is a partial revelation and not the perpetuation of the existing. My aim is to show what can be seen within the limits of possibility which exists in the midst of coming into being.

  Yaacov Agam

  Art, Understanding, Limits

  Yaacov Agam, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1980). “Homage to Yaacov Agam: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition, 1980”, Book Sales

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• My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine and make it irrational. I’m always looking for a small moment that is a revelation

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Time, Everyday

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• In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

  Frederick Sommer

  Photography, Acceptance, Photographer

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• I want to allow others to reveal and celebrate aspects of themselves that are usually hidden. My camera is a witness. It holds a light up for my subjects to help them feel their own essence, and gives them the courage to collaborate in the recording of these revelations.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Light, Essence

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• In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its roots in Western fantasies about barbaric others, has been to focus primarily on 'cultural' rather than 'individual' realities. The irony is that anthropology has always been rooted in an 'I' - understood as having a complex psychology and history - observing a 'we' that, until recently, was viewed as plural, ahistorical, and nonindividuated.

  Ruth Behar

  Reality, Voice, Roots

  Ruth Behar (2014). “The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart”, p.26, Beacon Press

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• Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

  Joss Whedon

  Beautiful, Guy, Written

  "Joss Whedon: The definitive EW interview". Interview with James Hibberd, ew.com. September 24, 2013.

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