Quotes about Revelation
You will never understand Jesus by looking at the God of the Old Testament. You must first look at Jesus and then you will understand the God of the Old Testament.
— Frank Viola
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
— George Washington
Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If our lives are truly hid with Christ in God, the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.
— Madeleine L'Engle
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything.... It is not that 'God' is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather, it speaks to us as a Word of God.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The complete, the true Mrs Whatsit, Meg realized, was beyond human understanding. What she saw was only the game Mrs Whatsit was playing; it was an amusing and charming game, a game full of both laughter and comfort, but it was only the tiniest facet of all the things Mrs Whatsit could be.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues and thanked God that he was not like other men.
— Madeleine L'Engle
cow. It finished opera for me for years.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I have learned that I love. Love. That is a good word.
— Madeleine L'Engle