Quotes about Epiphany
All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion.
- Steven Pressfield
My mind filled with a knowing that set my bloodstream on fire and transported me to a different kind of awareness. With my eyes open to the kingdom of heaven, I saw.
- Ted Dekker
Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
- Henry David Thoreau
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.
- CS Lewis
It was not so much that a door opened as that I suddenly found that a door had been open all along which I had only just then stumbled upon.
- Frederick Buechner
A window in Merton's mind let in that strange light of surprise in which we see for the first time things we have known all along.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.
- Thomas Merton
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.
- Albert Einstein
He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, but that is all.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.
- Pope Benedict XVI
It was as if all the latent beauty of things had been unveiled to her. She could not imagine that the world held anything more wonderful.
- Edith Wharton