Quotes about Revelation

What matters here is that the moment Cleopas and his friend recognized Jesus in the breaking of bread, his bodily presence was no longer required as a condition for their new hope.

The question is not "How am I to find God?" but "How am I to let myself be found by him?

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

I have scarcely heard of a truer sacrament, that is, as the dictionary defines it, outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace, than this, and I have no doubt that they were originally inspired directly from Heaven to do thus, though they have no Biblical record of the revelation.

So the role of the Holy Spirit is not to bring God's presence to the world, but to reveal it.

God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that. God himself must reveal it.

When God speaks, he does not give new revelation about himself that contradicts what he has already revealed in Scripture. Rather, God speaks to give application of his Word to the specific circumstances in your life. When God speaks to you, he is not writing a new book of Scripture; rather, he is applying to your life what he has already said in his Word.

God always has a fresh and deeper truth He wants us to learn about Him.