Quotes about Revelation
But she would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her. And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for.
— Oscar Wilde
I do not search; I find.
— Pablo Picasso
The revelation of God in Jesus Christ (which is the object of Christian faith) is something very different from religion. "Religion has many critics, but Jesus very few. He is a self-authenticating reality beyond the myriad social cocoons. He belongs to humanity. He called himself "Son of Man".
— Dallas Willard
I don't believe God messes with our minds. He is not mean, and if he has something to say to me, he will say it.
— Dallas Willard
If you believe God has told you to do something, ask him to confirm it to you three times: through his word, through circumstances, and through other people who may know nothing of the situation. "This precept of three witnesses is not a law, but it is a good rule of thumb in an area where rules of thumb are badly needed".
— Dallas Willard
It cannot be stressed too much that the permanent address at which the word of God may be found is the Bible.
— Dallas Willard
"Mystery" means, in the language of the New Testament, something that had long remained hidden but then came to be known for the first time.
— Dallas Willard
"Mystery" means, in the language of the New Testament, something that had long remained hidden but then came to be known for the first time.
— Dallas Willard
When you think "whirlwind," think "God is coming.
— Dallas Willard
So God uses our self-knowledge or self-awareness, which is heightened and given a special quality by his presence and direction, to search us out and reveal to us the truth about ourselves and our world.
— Dallas Willard
God does not delight in having to always explain what his will is; he enjoys it when we understand
— Dallas Willard
That is, his death was a revelation of the nature of basic reality. Without knowledge of it and its meaning, we are desperately ignorant of reality, and therefore all our thinking can only result in monstrous falsehoods.
— Dallas Willard