Revelations Quotes - Page 36

• One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, White Man, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics

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• Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.

  Denise Levertov

  Attitude, Moving, Poetry

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• A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Husband, Spring, Women

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Paganism, Spirit

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.14, 北戴河出版

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• My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Reading, Heaven, Desire

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• As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of what is cautious, calculating, and priggish--about half of our social conscience, indeed. Both of them permit us, in blessed moments of revelation, to soar above the common level of our lives.

  Robertson Davies

  Blessed, Tragedy, Half

  Robertson Davies (1961). “The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose”, London : Secker & Warburg

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• That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

  Horace Walpole

  Religion, Genius, Lines

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• I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the methodical path of the Jesuits.... It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that all can reach salvation.

  Umberto Eco

  Simple, Icons, Essence

  "Apple's holier-than-thou attitude may be its salvation" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2009.

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• [Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

  Leonard Cohen

  Country, Thinking, Self

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• What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Education, Men, Race

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• The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

  John Calvin

  Lying, Religion, May

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• The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter, are forced upon the profane multitudes, too busy to think for themselves, under the form of Divine revelation and scientific authority. But the same question stands open from the days of Socrates and Pilate down to our own age of wholesale negation: is there such a thing as absolute truth in the hands of any one party or man?

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Spiritual, Party, Men

  Lucifer Magazine, February 1888.

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• Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to the power of His redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse into paganism.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Christian, Religious, Loss

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• Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Religion, Atmosphere, Magic

  Malinowski, Bronislaw (2014). “Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays”, p.71, Read Books Ltd

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• Gods revelation has always been in deeds. Gods interventions in history have always been in deeds, in actions. Then there are those who interpret the actions, and then there are those who write down the interpretations of the actions.

  Donald Wuerl

  Writing, Deeds, Action

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• The Bible contains all the extant revelations of God, which He designed to be the rule of faith and practice for his Church; so that nothing can rightfully be imposed on the consciences of men as truth or duty which is not taught directly or by necessary implication in the Holy Scriptures.

  Charles Hodge

  Men, Practice, Church

  CHARLES HODGE (1873). “SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.”, p.183

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• Following revelations that he fathered a love child, the good Reverend Jesse Jackson - or should we say the 'very' good Reverend - is enduring the scandal with the help of family and friends. A scandal which gives clearer meaning to the Rainbow Coalition's Operation 'Push'.

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Giving, Rainbow

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• While often being called transdisciplinary, theonomous reasoning is actually a first step back to ancient wisdom in which methodological sensation [or what we now know as science] has completely merged with methodological revelation [or totally known mystical knowledge in which every aspect of the occult has been overcome]. A true tradition has no occult or hidden phases left in its process. The creators and the audience are in perfect harmony.

  Paul Laffoley

  Perfect, Firsts, Steps

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• There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable.

  Josh Marshall

  Wise, Believe, Fool

  "So Now We've Got". talkingpointsmemo.com. March 26, 2007.

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• The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Gains, Mystery

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.3, Rabindranath Tagore

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• The true contrast between science and religion is that science unites the world and makes it possible for people of widely differing backgrounds to work together and to cooperate. Religion, on the other hand, by its very claim to know “The Truth” through “revelation,” is inherently divisive and a creator of separatism and hostility.

  Hermann Bondi

  Hands, People, Religion

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• It will comfort us when we must wait in distress for the Savior's promised relief that He knows, from experience, how to heal and help us. The Book of Mormon gives us the certain assurance of His power to comfort. And faith in that power will give us patience as we pray and work and wait for help. He could have known how to succor us simply by revelation, but He chose to learn by His own personal experience.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Book, Giving, Waiting

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• To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would say that something like Buddhism doesn't even belong on the list, since it doesn't link salvation to divine worship, but to me this is just a quibble. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism all perceive human beings as flawed, wounded creatures in need of salvation, and all rely fundamentally on revelations that spell out how salvation is to be attained, either by departing from this life or rising above it.

  Daniel Quinn

  Buddhism, Islam, Different

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• Personal ignorance should be admitted, but it should not be allowed to place limits and bounds on the ways 'and means of revelation.

  Jeffrey Lang

  Ignorance, Mean, Way

  Jeffrey Lang (1997). “Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America”

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• Logical thinking will not be enough to get answers to the questions that matter most in life. We need revelation from God.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Thinking, Needs, Answers

  FaceBook post by Henry B Eyring from Oct 17, 2014

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