Quotes about Revelation
The way to understand the meaning of torah min hashamayim ("the Bible is from heaven") is to understand the meaning of hashamayim min hatorah ("heaven is from the Bible). Whatever taste of "heaven" we have on earth is in the Bible.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The essence of our faith in the sanctity of the Bible is that its words contain that which God wants us to know and to fulfill. How these words were written down is not the fundamental problem.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The act of revelation is a mystery, while the record of revelation is a literary fact, phrased in the language of man.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
— Alain de Botton
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
— Desmond Tutu
One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one's own strength, one has to inquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No one can speak of the beginning but the one who was in the beginning. Thus the Bible begins with God's free affirmation, free acknowledgment, free revelation of himself: In the beginning God created...
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Those who have found God in the cross of Jesus Christ know how wonderfully God hides himself in this world and how he is closest precisely when we believe him to be most distant.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No one knows God unless God reveals Himself to him.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No one knows God unless God reveals Himself to him.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No one knows God unless God reveals Himself to him.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer