Quotes about Revelation
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
— CS Lewis
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?
— JC Ryle
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.
— Pope Benedict XVI
God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.
— John Piper
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
— St. Augustine
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
— St. Augustine
But Thou, O my God, hadst already taught me by wonderful and secret ways, and therefore I believe that Thou taughtest me, because it is truth, nor is there besides Thee any teacher of truth, where or whencesoever it may shine upon us.
— St. Augustine
Let truth spring out of the earth, and righteousness look down from heaven.
— St. Augustine
For behold, Thou lovest the truth, and he that doth it, cometh to the light.
— St. Augustine
It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
— St. Augustine
Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.
— Benjamin Disraeli
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
— Oscar Wilde