But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.
A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.
Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?
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.
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.
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.
If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.
That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.
The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’
Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.
Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
To discover that you can paint without special talent is a great revelation. An endless stream runs through you, enough to paint for lifetimes. Talent is universal. You can dip into that source to your heart's content. Everyone is good at what comes to them spontaneously. If nothing is put in your way, talent will meet you there.
Art is the clothing of a revelation
Inclusivism: Whereas Exclusivists regard general revelation as informative only and special revelation as both informative and salvific, Inclusivists, by contrast, regard general revelation as both informative and salvific and special revelation as even mere deeply informative and even more effectively and widely salvific!
Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men.
That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who did so die was the Christ the Son of God is entirely a matter of revelation.
In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.
. . . every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.