Revelations Quotes - Page 38

• 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

  Illusion, Accepting, Feels

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be!

  Horace Bushnell

  Lying, Believe, Heaven

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.222

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• writing is about doing something very close to the bone. It's about shocking yourself. When I write, I like to make myself cry, laugh - I like to give myself an experience. I see a lot of writing out there that's very safe. But if you're not scaring yourself, why would you think that you'd be scaring anybody else? If you're not coming to a revelation about your place in the universe, why would you think anyone else would?

  Kate Braverman

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.

  Max Muller

  Philosophy, Keys, Perfection

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 287, 1895.

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• 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

  Virtue, Reason, Relation

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• When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.

  Cornelius Van Til

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trading caravan across a desert.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Greatness, Men, Progress

  Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard (1853). “A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston”, p.235, Boston : Little, Brown

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• 'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation.' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of the Universe. He rewards or punishes them according to their general character. The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

  Samuel Adams

  Wise, Character, Long

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• Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Drug, Vision, Records

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• Religion implies revelation.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Religion

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• There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Self, Three, Firsts

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• Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

  Ken Baumann

  Art, Practice, Horizon

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• The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should know which information when, and how the revelations would impact the rest of the family. All of those questions eventually lead back to one: What's at the heart of this book? Where does it want to focus, or toward what does it want to lead us?

  Peter Turchi

  Book, Character, Heart

  "Something to be shared". Interview with Reed Turchi, logger.believermag.com. November 11, 2014.

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• I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil."

  George Saunders

  Morning, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

  Byron Katie

  People, Mind, Needs

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which doesn't mean lurid revelations as much as simply looking at your own deep experiences and describing them as they are.

  Frederick Buechner

  Mean, Grace, Depth

  Frederick Buechner's Door Interview, www.jmm.org.au. October 13, 2003.

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• It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Death, Analysis, Birth

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.297, tredition

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• The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's hidden hand that holds the mirror up, the impersonal mechanism by means of which matter makes its perfection manifest.

  Donald Kuspit

  Art, Mean, Mirrors

  Donald Kuspit (2013). “Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries”, p.69, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but almost or quite always strengthens, and very often advances to a splendid assurance; while unbelief under the same circumstances never strengthens, but almost or quite always weakens and falters, and very often fails utterly.

  Enoch Fitch Burr

  Biblical, Failing, Christ

  Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.277

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• The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.

  African Spir

  Real, Data, Principles

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod,
  But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God.

  Robert Haven Schauffler

  God, Past, Thrill

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• We can no longer speak of a bourne from which no traveler e'er returns. The middle wall of partition has been broken down and the boundary become but an invisible line by the resurrection of Christ. That He who died has been raised again and ever lives in the form of a complete humanity is the fundamental fact in the revelation of the Christian doctrine of immortality.

  B. B. Warfield

  Christian, Easter, Wall

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• I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.

  Vance Havner

  Winning, Men, Feet

  Vance Havner (0101). “It is Time”, p.62, Solid Christian Books

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• I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own.

  Joni Mitchell

  Honesty, Order, Light

  "Joni Mitchell: Lament for the Lady of the Canyon" by James Hughes, www.smh.com.au. July 10, 2015.

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• The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation.

  Northrop Frye

  Men, Water Of Life, Tree

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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