Quotes about Revelation

Listen, the road seems to admonish. Listen. I have stories. I close my eyes, and I hear voices. Thousands whispering all at once. I can't make out any single one, but I know they're here. What do they have to say?

If I don't tell anyone, it'll never be true.

You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.

The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.

When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.

Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.

O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.

As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God's name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same.

If we cannot detect God's presence in the world, it may be that we have been looking in the wrong places.

Jesus did not eliminate evil; he revealed a God willing, at immense cost, to forgive it and to heal its damage.