Quotes about Revelation
you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all. -Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.
— Henri Nouwen
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
— Isabel Allende
An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...
— Jack Kerouac
Truth… never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.
— John Milton
Suspense in news is torture.
— John Milton
What is dark within me, illumine.
— John Milton
Jesus did not tell parables to confirm well-known truths, but rather to shatter well-known truths.
— John Newton
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience...
— John Owen
No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.
— John Owen
Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.
— John Piper
The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).
— John Piper