Quotes about Revelation

Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.

For let it go how it will, he said, God speaks in the least of creatures. The kid thought him to mean birds or things that crawl but the expriest, watching, his head slightly cocked, said: No man is give leave of that voice. The kid spat into the fire and bent to his work. I aint heard no voice, he said. When it stops, said Tobin, you'll know you've heard it all your life. Is that right? Aye.

He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.

Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him.

The frailty of everything revealed at last.

Every Christian generation learns equally the lessons of Revelation—that God is in control, that the powers of the world are minuscule when compared with God, that God is as likely to work through apparent weakness and failure as through strength and success, and that in the end God's people will prevail.

She felt unpeeled and rather exposed. She felt almost improper.

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.

If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles

Whoever you are holding me now in hand, Without one thing all will be useless, I give you fair warning before you attempt me further, I am not what you supposed, but far different. -from Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand

All truths wait in all things