Quotes about Revelation
When the crucified Jesus is called the image of the invisible God, the meaning is that THIS is God, and God is like THIS.
— Jurgen Moltmann
Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.
— J. Gresham Machen
It reminds me of a remark Lucien [Carr] once made to me: He said You never seem to give yourself away completely, but of course dark-haired people are so mysterious.
— Jack Kerouac
A blessed night. I immediately fell into a blank thoughtless trance wherein it was again revealed to me "This thinking has stopped" and I sighed because I didn't have to think any more and felt my whole body sink into a blessedness surely to be believed, completely relaxed and at peace with all the ephemeral world of dream and dreamer and the dreaming itself.
— Jack Kerouac
And a kind of holy lightning I saw flashing from his excitement and his visions, which he described so torrentially
— Jack Kerouac
It made me think that everything was about to arrive—the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.
— Jack Kerouac
I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive—the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.
— Jack Kerouac
No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.
— Irenaeus of Lyons
Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
— Watchman Nee
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
— Jack Kerouac
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
— CS Lewis
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.
— John Calvin