Revelations Quotes - Page 40

• The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Law, Prison, Obedience

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• I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

  Oliver Cowdery

  Judgment, Authority, Interest

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• I think my biggest revelation was to write entirely from the heart, and to convey emotion, even when it meant forcing myself to feel uncomfortable in doing so.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

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• A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.

  T.C. Boyle

  Mind, Culture, Looks

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• The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Years, Glee

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• Fat loss is an all-out war. Give it 28 days - only 28 days. Attack it with all you have. It's not a lifestyle choice; it's a battle. Lose fat and then get back into moderation. There's another one for you: moderation. Revelation says it best: 'You are lukewarm and I shall spit you out.' Moderation is for sissies.

  Dan John

  War, Loss, Lifestyle Choices

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• My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

  William E. Gladstone

  Mind, Divine Revelation, World

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• Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to delete us and start over (Gen. 8:21; Zeph. 1:2). Therefore, the existence of cruel and arbitrary nature, together with the universality of human sin, prevents us from beginning the theological enterprise with any concept of God that is distinct from revelation. All theologies of a cosmic harmonic principle shipwreck on the truths of tragedy, catastrophe, and injustice.

  Paul F. M. Zahl

  Common Sense, Starting Over, Together

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• I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Errors, Perfect, Taught

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• All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Reality

  "Photography's Ardent Proselytizer" by Andy Grundberg, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 1984.

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• We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Long, Treasure, Earth

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• Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

  Annie Dillard

  Nature, Believe, Judging

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• an artist is always seeking revelation.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Artist, Youth, Seeking

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.159, Open Road Media

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• It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Faith, Ignorance, Light

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• I used to think there would be a blinding flash of light someday, and then I would be wise and calm and would know how to cope with everything and my kids would rise up and call me blessed. Now I see that whatever I'm like, I'm pretty well stuck with it for life. Hell of a revelation that turned out to be.

  Margaret Laurence

  Wise, Blessed, Kids

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• American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we've never known what to do with this part of the Bible. The more we succeed, the more we're seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.

  Bill Vaughan

  Bible, Thinking, Suffering

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• a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.

  Agatha Christie

  Oysters, People, Trouble

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• Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

  Marya Mannes

  Knowing, Feelings, Intuition

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• I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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

  Margaret Fuller

  Woe, Infinite Hope, Life Is

  Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.306

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• Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance.

  Freya Stark

  Views, Personality, Mountain

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

  Hannah Arendt

  Animal, Reality, Ideas

  Hannah Arendt (1966). “The origins of totalitarianism”

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• Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it can not be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to ME, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Communication, Religion

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.2

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• [P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Zero, Mean

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• There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

  Karyn Kusama

  Climbing, Goal, Mountain

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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