Quotes about Revelation

If we throw ourselves open to God, He will reveal. The trouble comes when we have closed areas, locked and barred places in our hearts, where we think, with pride, that we are right.

The light of revelation does not descend on us perpendicularly from above; it comes through worldly media by the power of God's Spirit, who enlists our participation in the process of responsible interpretation and critical appropriation.

This is God's holiness and justice revealed in Jesus Christ: that God justifies, accepts, and loves sinners despite their unworthiness.

Sometimes it takes suffering to reveal to us just how rich we are.

Day and night they never stop saying: "'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,' who was, and is, and is to come." Revelation 4:8, NIV

Jesus is revealed in the changed lives of His beloved children.

But there is no perfect guide for discerning God's movement in the world, Contrary to what many conservatives say, the Bible is not a blueprint on this matter. It is a valuable symbol for point to God's revelation in Jesus, but it is not self-interpreting. We are thus place in an existential situation of freedom in which the burden is on us to make decisions without a guaranteed ethical guide.

If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth.

if you stay still for long enough, the universe whispers its secrets to you.

The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.

When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.