331 Quotes About Revelation

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

Mercy?”“Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.

Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.

… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this revelation. It’s the sound of the real world, gigantic and impossible, replacing the smaller version of reality that I wear like a bonnet, clutched tightly under my chin.

The epiphany was simply tucked away for consideration after we were back on campus. Sometimes a revelation comes with a flash of heavenly light and a booming voice - and sometimes it is jotted in a sun-bleached spiral notebook.