Quotes about Revelation
God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.
— Victor Hugo
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
— Victor Hugo
It was a garbage heap, and it was Sinai.
— Victor Hugo
God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent
— Victor Hugo
It is sometimes no less startling to meet the dog than the wolf
— Victor Hugo
Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.
— Milan Kundera
The larger the searchlight, the larger the searchlight of the unknown.
— Milan Kundera
The tree of possibilities: life as it reveals itself to a man arriving, astonished, at the threshold of his adult life: an abundant treetop canopy filled with bees singing. And he thinks he understands why she never showed him the letters: she wanted to hear the murmur of the tree by herself, without him, because he, Jean-Marc, represented the abolition of all possibilities, he was the reduction, (even though it was a happy reduction) of her life to a single possibility.
— Milan Kundera
And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves.
— Ted Dekker
I've never understood sexy lingerie. I mean, what's the point? The guy's only going to take it off.
— Candace Bushnell
The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader.
— Carl Sagan
Maybe God was about to show him what he was made of.
— Terri Blackstock