Quotes about Revelation

One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of Revelation to prove us wrong only to find that what we said was there.

O cruel Truth, is this thine home-coming?

He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, but that is all.

I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.

Then the door opened and she came into the room - and it was as though everything in it suddenly blurred before his eyes. He had not remembered how beautiful she was, and he felt his face grow pale and his voice diminish to a poor sigh in his throat.

The epistle to the Hebrews, in the New Testament, warns us about worshiping angels. An angel is only an angel if he reveals something of the presence and power of Jesus Christ.

In other words, the new understanding imparted by the Bible comes from a source lying beyond our ability to frame questions.

Here is what Isaiah says: Verily thou art a God who hides thyself, O God of Israel, the Savior (45:15). God is still active, still living, still in charge, still the subject of the verb: God hides himself.' God is active even when hidden, even when seemingly absent.

I discovered who I was when I discovered God. You are just like your father God.

Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.

God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?

But the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 1 KINGS 19:11—12