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• The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

  Eudora Welty

  Life, Time, Order

  1984 One Writer's Beginnings, II. 'Learning to See'.

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• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Wisdom, Philosophy

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beauty, God, Art

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.138

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  Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Mistake

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• Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Objects

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• The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, World, Creation

  John Quincy Adams (1850). “Letters by John Quincy Adams, on the Study of the Bible”, p.20

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• Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mystery, Wonder, Consciousness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Consistency, Spirit

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

  Adyashanti

  Splits, Realizing, Moments

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• The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Philosophy, Men

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.250, Modern Library

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• Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Book, Religion

  "History of the Church", 2:52, April 22, 1834.

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• I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Men, Rumor

  Gustave Flaubert (2005). “November: Fragments in a Nondescript Style”, Hesperus Press

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• The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Healing, Names, Miracle

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• Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.

  LL Cool J

  Honor, Admiration, Whole

  Song: I Need Love, Album: Bigger and Deffer

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• God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Race, Monopoly

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.

  M. Scott Peck

  God, Dream, Voice

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• Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Book, People

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• It's not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, "The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New Testament books." In some ways they thought instead of the culmination of Old Testament books being Christ himself, the word incarnate as the opening verses of Hebrews 1 put it. In the past God spoke to the fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his son and the son is revelation.

  D. A. Carson

  Father, Book, Son

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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• The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

  Audre Lorde

  Self, Silence, Action

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.42, Crossing Press

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• Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

  Denis Diderot

  Religion, Different, Certainty

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

  George Washington

  Light, Influence, Christianity

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.367

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• Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Moving, Degrees

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• Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

  William Blackstone

  God, Law, Two

  Sir William Blackstone, Edward Christian, John Frederick Archbold, Joseph Chitty (1827). “Commentaries on the Laws of England”, p.28

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• My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy.

  Mortimer Adler

  Philosophy, Mystery, Christianity

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• When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

  Frank Borman

  Peace, Moon, Ubuntu

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