Revelation quotations

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◆ Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

- Ludwig van Beethoven99

◆ Words don't have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.

- Shannon L. Alder98

◆ God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.

- Shannon L. Alder98

◆ I just don't think pastors should turn their pulpits into public policy platforms. It cheapens the gospel. Our congregation doesn't need another political opinion. They need spiritual revelation. They don't need to think about politics on the weekend. They need to be reminded to seek first the kingdom of God.

- Mark Batterson98

◆ Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

- Shannon L. Alder98

◆ Unless men may come to a reasonable, solid persuasion and conviction of the truth of the gospel, by the internal evidences of it, . . . by a sight of its glory; it is impossible that those who are illiterate, and unacquainted with history, should have any thorough and effectual conviction of it at all. They may without this, see a great deal of probability of it; it may be reasonable for them to give much credit to what learned men and historians tell them. . . . But to have a conviction, so clear, and evident, and assuring, as to be sufficient to induce them, with boldness to sell all, confidently and fearlessly to run the venture of the loss of all things, and of enduring the most exquisite and long continued torments, and to trample the world under foot, and count all things but dung for Christ, the evidence they can have from history, cannot be sufficient.

- Jonathan Edwards98

◆ Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God's love.

- Shannon L. Alder98

◆ And that's the last chapter of the history of the world: in which we create, through the workings of the imagination, a world that is uncreated: that is the work of no author. A world that imagination cannot thereafter alter, not in its deepest workings and its laws, but only envision in new ways; where our elder brothers and sisters, the things, suffer our childish logomantic games with them and wait for us to grow up, and know better; where we do grow up, and do know better.

- John Crowley98

◆ Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern patterns and meanings within them. Stories of all sorts form and shape the character of those who read them. We live within the narrative as creatures in search of an ending, in search of happiness.

- N.T. Wright98

◆ There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.

- William James98

◆ The great change never does occur, only matches struck unexpectedly in the dark. Here was one.

- Virginia Woolf98

◆ For the righteous, the revelation is a joyous event, the realization of a divine truth. But for the wicked, revelations can be far more terrifying, when dark secrets are exposed and sinners are punished for their trespasses.

- Emily Thorne98

◆ A man of intelligence sees a complicated and blurred intent as a naked body, unclad by his brilliance.

- Michael Bassey Johnson98

◆ Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure.

- Michael Bassey Johnson98

◆ We don't get to choose what truths God reveals to us -- but we do get to choose what we do with the truths -- whom we share it with and how.

- Carol Goodman98