Quotes about Revelation

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.

Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.

Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.

Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.

The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10, 000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing.

Moreover, I discovered that day that grown-ups could lie just as well as I, and it seemed to me that I could no longer feel quite safe with them.

Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.

He who receives Light from above, from the Fountain of Light, No other doctrine needs, though granted true; But these are false, or little else but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm.

The appearance of an angel from heaven could add nothing to the certainty of the declarations he has already put into our hands.

God wants to be known, but not in a way that overwhelms us, that takes away the possibility of love freely chosen. "God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away," said Meister Eckhart.