Revelations famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.
-- Aime Cesaire -
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Maurice has been a revelation, on and off the field,
-- Alexi Lalas -
I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.
-- Alvin Ailey -
Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
-- Archibald Alexander -
Achievements of life are momentary, but realizations are longer lasting.
-- Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal -
I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Are you ready for some real revelation knowledge....you are god
-- Benny Hinn -
If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.
-- Bradford Morrow -
When Joseph received the revelation that we have in our possession concerning the [baptism of the] dead, the subject was opened to him, not in full but in part... Then women were baptized for men and men for women, & c.
-- Brigham Young -
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
-- C. S. Lewis -
As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
-- Charles Bass -
The main subject in the Bible from the beginning of Genesis through Revelation is none other than Jesus.
-- Charles E. Fuller -
Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion.
-- Chris Oyakhilome -
Marci Geller was a revelation! She's wonderful!
-- Christine Lavin -
To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.
-- Christopher Paolini -
People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
-- Damian Lewis -
Reverential human acts of submission and homage before the divine Sovereign, in response to his gracious revelation of himself, and in accordance with his will.
-- Dan Block -
The revelation of Christ, for which our souls thirst, thrills us increasingly as we more clearly understand who He is in all His fullness and what He accomplished to reconcile us to Himself.
-- Dave Hunt -
God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
-- David Platt -
If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything.
-- David Steindl-Rast -
They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.
-- David Wong -
Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.
-- Del Close -
There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.
-- Dizzy Gillespie -
I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.
-- Dorothy Allison -
Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.
-- Edward McKendree Bounds -
All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul
-- Eleanora Duse -
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
-- Erica Jong -
Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself
-- Frank Langella -
In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.
-- Frederick Sommer -
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
-- Fulton J. Sheen -
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
-- Georg Simmel -
Our growing thought Makes growing revelation.
-- George Eliot -
Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature.
-- George Murphy -
I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction...
-- Georges Braque -
A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen -
Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.
-- Ibn Arabi -
Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.
-- James A. Baldwin -
Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.
-- James Nesbitt -
Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.
-- James Turrell -
I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so it’s not something that reveals something about other things you’re looking at, but it becomes a revelation in itself.
-- James Turrell -
When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.
-- Jean Paul Gaultier -
What occurs after revelation and paralysis?
-- Jeff VanderMeer -
When it becomes a deep rooted revelation of what Jesus Christ did for you at Calvary, you will never walk away!
-- Jerry Savelle -
There never was a revelation without a question first.
-- John Andreas Widtsoe -
The Bible is God's declaratory revelation to man containing the great truths about God, about man, about history, about salvation, and about prophecy that God wanted us to know. The Bible could be trusted just as much as if God had taken the pen and written the words Himself.
-- John F Walvoord -
A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.
-- John Marin -
If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.
-- John Owen -
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience...
-- John Owen -
The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.
-- Joseph Franklin Rutherford -
The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.
-- Joseph Silk -
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
-- Joseph Smith, Jr. -
Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.
-- Joss Whedon -
... hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout...
-- Julian Bream -
The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.
-- Julie B. Beck -
Because personal revelation is a constantly renewable source of strength, it is possible to feel bathed in help even during turbulent times.
-- Julie B. Beck -
One of the things Satan fears the most is that you would get the revelation of what you can do through prayer.
-- Karen Wheaton -
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
-- Karl Barth -
To say revelation is to say, 'the Word became flesh...'
-- Karl Barth -
More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.
-- Keith Morris -
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike -
Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated.
-- Kenny Smith -
The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.
-- L. Lionel Kendrick -
Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.
-- LL Cool J -
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
-- Lord Acton -
There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery -
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 -
The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.
-- Mark Rothko -
By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.
-- Martin Luther -
I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer.
-- Matt Chandler -
Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
-- Moses Mendelssohn -
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 -
Mercy?†“Just a minute,†I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.
-- Patricia Briggs -
What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.
-- Philip Glass -
This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.
-- R. Scott Bakker -
The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
-- Ralph Adams Cram -
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
-- Robert Fitzgerald -
Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.
-- Robin Skelton -
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
-- Salvador Dali -
Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.
-- Sarah Churchwell -
All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.
-- Sathya Sai Baba -
There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself
-- Sidney Lumet -
I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God.
-- Sun Myung Moon -
The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.
-- Thomas Berry -
Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.
-- Warren Weaver -
Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation...
-- Wassily Kandinsky -
God's glory is the created brightness that surrounds God’s revelation of himself.
-- Wayne Grudem -
There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.
-- Wes Smith -
My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
-- William E. Gladstone -
When you look at a work of art, you don't see a cover for something else; you see revelation. If you're an artist, art is the truest expression of yourself. Even if you're painting a life you don't have.
-- Deborah Solomon -
[Science is] piecemeal revelation.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
