Revelations Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess, but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side - mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die.

  Jose Rizal

  Believe, Sides, Speak

  Letter to Fr. Pastells, April 04, 1893.

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• The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and theres ongoing creative revelations. Yes, its really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

  Carlton Cuse

  Discovery, Ideas, Roots

  "Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse on the End (?) of Lost". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.vulture.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I'd always thought that heavy metal - what I knew of it, anyway - was for tragic losers with acne and inch-thick glasses who fantasised about slaying dragons and riding Harleys, failing to realise at the time that the only loser was me. Fortunately, a good friend of mine played me 'Battery' from Metallica's Master Of Puppets album and the scales fell instantly from my eyes. It was a total revelation.

  Joel McIver

  Eye, Good Friend, Glasses

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• Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.

  Anne Enright

  Plot, Stories, Ears

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• There's nothing better than being in a film that translates to audiences and makes people think and feel good and walk away with great revelations in their own life of some kind. But when the process and the experience and the fun of that matches, it's a good feeling.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Tongue, Idiot

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• All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Errors, Imperfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.61, A&C Black

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• I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Air, People, Body

  Source: www.thehighcalling.org

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• I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mother, Children, Effort

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.

  William Ralph Inge

  God, Law, Creation

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• At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves and there is the recognition of oneness, of shared consciousness. That recognition is love. Sensing the formless essence in another and recognizing it as one with your own essence - that's what love is. All this is an intrinsic part of the awakened consciousness and the revelation of the spiritual dimension of life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Heart, Love Is

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• When an injustice happens, we want to be vindicated. People feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong. If we're honest, we'll admit that we usually want the person who hurt us to pay for what they did. We can't get past this until we get the revelation that only God can pay us back. He is our Vindicator - He will heal and restore us if we will trust Him and forgive our enemies as He has told us to do.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hurt, Responsibility, Past

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• My heart and my love is in the country because something feels pure and noble and good there, but at the same time, obedience draws me to cities, which are full of cultures that are interesting and fun. I always swore I hated New York. Since having this revelation that cities are where people are, where the need is, I'm growing to love New York.

  Josh Garrels

  Country, New York, Fun

  Interview with Charles Carman, www.curatormagazine.com. June 16, 2014.

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• I can't believe the world was created in six days. I do not take Genesis or Revelation literally. I AM OUT. I am alone. I am an outsider for Christ. I will study my Bible, and pray to God in private and alone. I have no other choice.

  Anne Rice

  Believe, Choices, World

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• Human speculation is no match for divine revelation.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

  John Locke

  Character, Religion, Principles

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• To preach the Bible as 'the handbook for life,' or as the answer to every question, rather than as the revelation of Christ, is to turn the Bible into an entirely different book. This is how the Pharisees approached Scripture, as we can see clearly from the questions they asked Jesus. For the Pharisees, the Scriptures were a source of trivia for life's dilemmas.

  Michael Horton

  Bible, Jesus, Book

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• But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?

  John Adams

  Christian, Religious, Faith Religion

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.235

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• The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

  William Ellery Channing

  Nature, Cheer, Communication

  William Ellery Channing (1830). “Remarks on the character and writings of Fenelon”, p.7

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