Revelations Quotes - Page 26

• There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Law, World, Divinity

  Leo Tolstoy (graf), Nathan Haskell Dole (1899). “The complete works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Mind, Liable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Eye, Air, Research

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• After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Reality, Silence, Despair

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• Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Struggle, Intellectual, Suffering

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1248, Delphi Classics

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• Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Suffering, Phrases

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.105, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Silence, Acting

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.276, CUP Archive

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• Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

  Wallace Stevens

  Perception, Mind, Essentials

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.246, Vintage

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• If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

  Mary Oliver

  Believe, Done, Too Much

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• The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

  Wendell Berry

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Acquisition

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words: Essays”, p.56, Counterpoint Press

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• America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.

  Mary McCarthy

  Writing, Past, Men

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

  Adam Clarke

  Wise, Men, Promise

  Adam Clarke (1820). “Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon”, p.48

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• It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

  Huston Smith

  Civilization, Different, Looks

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• One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Jobs, Flower, Cutting

  "The best things in life are..." by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

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• Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

  Guy Finley

  Dark, Light, Resistance

  "Fear and the ‘Anti-Change Factor’" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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• I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.

  Chris Crutcher

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

  Interview with Jennifer M. Brown, www.publishersweekly.com. Mar 12, 2001.

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• I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.

  Alvin Ailey

  Black, Culture, Wanted

  "Ailey's Troupe Explores Its Roots". Interview with Jennifer Dunning, www.nytimes.com. November 27, 1983.

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• I want to say to every man, the Constitution of the United States, as formed by our fathers, was dictated, was revealed, was put into their hearts by the Almighty, who sits enthroned in the midst of the heavens; although unknown to them, it was dictated by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and I tell you in the name of Jesus Christ, it is as good as I could ask for.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• You might prove doctrine from the Bible till doomsday, and it would merely convince a people, but would not convert them. You might read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations, and prove every iota that you advance, and that alone would have no converting influence upon the people. Nothing short of a testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost would bring light and knowledge to them -- bring them in their hearts to repentance. Nothing short of that would ever do.

  Brigham Young

  Heart, Light, People

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”, p.327

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• In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

  Ruth Park

  Morning, Sea, Sky

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• ...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority of those to whom the revelation has been made. Nor does this take away from the dignity of this doctrine, for although the argument from authority based on human reason is the weakest, yet the argument from authority based on divine revelation is the strongest.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Believe, Doe

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.68, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits some at least of the truths obtained through divine revelation; thus we can argue with heretics from texts in Holy Writ, and against those who deny one article of faith we can argue from another. If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections - if he has any - against faith.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Believe, Mean

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas), Stephen F. Brown (1999). “On Faith and Reason”, p.19, Hackett Publishing

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• If you are to be successful...you will need to be inspired. You will need to receive revelation. I will give you one piece of advice: Go to bed early and get up early. If you do, your body and mind will become rested and then in the quiet of those early morning hours, you will receive more flashes of inspiration and insight than at any other time of the day.

  Harold B. Lee

  Morning, Inspiration, Successful

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• There are many who profess to be religious and speak of themselves as Christians, and, according to one such, "as accepting the scriptures only as sources of inspiration and moral truth," and then ask in their smugness: "Do the revelations of God give us a handrail to the kingdom of God, as the Lord's messenger told Lehi, or merely a compass?"

  Harold B. Lee

  Christian, Religious, Inspiration

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• Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Waiting, Awe

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.228, Harvard University Press

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