Quotes about Revelation
Moses' vision of God began with light; afterwards God spoke to him in a cloud. But when Moses rose higher and became more perfect, he saw God in the darkness.
— Gregory of Nyssa
By whom was man to be recalled to the grace of his original state? To whom belonged the restoration of the fallen one, the recovery of the lost, the leading back the wanderer by the hand? To whom else than entirely to Him Who is the Lord of his nature? For Him only Who at the first had given the life was it possible, or fitting, to recover it when lost. This is what we are taught and learn from the Revelation of the truth, that God in the beginning made man and saved him when he had fallen.
— Gregory of Nyssa
For most evangelicals, revelation was found in the inerrant scriptures, and one need not look elsewhere. I knew in my gut that God's revelation was found among poor black people.
— James H. Cone
When persons encounter God's self-disclosure, they not only know who God is but also who they are.
— James H. Cone
Present-day Christians misinterpret the cross when they make it a nonoffensive religious symbol, a decorative object in their homes and churches. The cross, therefore, needs the lynching tree to remind us what it means when we say that God is revealed in Jesus at Golgotha, the place of the skull, on the cross where criminals and rebels against the Roman state were executed. The lynching tree is America's cross.
— James H. Cone
If human power in history—among races, nations, and other collectives as well as individuals—is self-interested power, then "the revelation of divine goodness in history" must be weak and not strong.
— James H. Cone
Those who have "died" and returned usually report being met and guided by people they know very well—even those already dead many years.
— James Garlow
The more you immerse yourself in the story of God's light in this life, the more likely you are to see it again on the other side.
— James Garlow
Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
— Milan Kundera
Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil.
— Matshona Dhliwayo