Quotes about Revelation

Only when l know, the truth will set me free!

It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.

The words of the Lord are written in the word around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life and you will discover where.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around. No one sacrifices the most important thing she possesses: love. No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

So it was in life. In order for the more substantial pieces of wood to catch fire, the kindling must burn first. In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself. In order for us to understand the powers we carry within us and the secrets that have already been revealed, it was first necessary to allow the surface expectations, fears, appearances — to be burned away.

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

God's revelation was not a mystic secret for the initiated, but a light to guide every member of God's community.

The invisible God makes himself visible in the love that Christians have for one another.

I've come to the conclusion that it's more important that I have the right attitude than that I have the right answers. If my answers are wrong, God can change them in a moment by the revelation of His truth. But often times it takes a whole lifetime to change an attitude. Better that we have the right attitude and the wrong answers, than the right answers and the wrong attitude.

Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.

The task of dogmatics is precisely to rationally reproduce the content of revelation that relates to the knowledge of God.