I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God.
Human science cannot discover God. Human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry web of God's science. It works with its back to him, and is always leaving his intent and perfected work behind it. Science is always going farther and farther away from the point where his work culminates in revelation.
I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in order for a poem to feel authentic, I have to feel I'm treading on very dangerous ground, which can mean that the resulting revelations may prove hurtful to other people. The time for thinking about that kind of guilt or any collective sense of responsibility, however, occurs much later in the creative process, after the poem is finished.
When Joseph received the revelation that we have in our possession concerning the [baptism of the] dead, the subject was opened to him, not in full but in part. . . Then women were baptized for men and men for women, & c.
People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.
Marci Geller was a revelation! She's wonderful!
Sharing revelations is easier when it doesn't matter.
That which is revealed when thoughts are absent is also here when thoughts are present.
Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.
In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.
the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion , in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what the afterlife would be. All made guesses, and then established these as articles of faith. Though, in a sense, some were near the mark, if you accept their revelations as symbolic.
It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.