Quotes about Revelation

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me; it is the parts I do understand." Whoever said that may well have been thinking about Matthew 5 or even our specific passage.

Since—and this is why it changed how I read the Bible—God chose to communicate in language, since language is always shaped by context, and since God chose to speak to us over time through many writers, God also chose to speak to us in a variety of ways and expressions. Furthermore, I believe that because the gospel story is so deep and wide, God needed a variety of expressions to give us a fuller picture of the Story.

God gave the Bible not so we can know it but so we can know and love God through it.

The book of Revelation requires us to take a stand for the Lamb in this world. To read it well we must learn to think "theo-politically," or to say this another way, the entire book of Revelation is about public discipleship.

10 Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" 11And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

I hope people'll find out pretty quickly that the guy they saw for 10 years was my sense of humor the whole time.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought hell.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.