#revelation

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#between #connection #false #life #need

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#creed #end #god #keep #make

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 Edwards

#holy-s #revelation #education

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#anxiety #anything #around #came #carrying

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. ↗

— William James

#force #idea #individual #must #revelation

There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their proper Messiah. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#believe #could #god #israelites #make

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation. ↗

— Thomas Ken

#divine #great #holy #mystery #prostrate

And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing and not breathing and hearts beating between us and he’s so close, he’s so close and I can’t feel my legs anymore. I can’t feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere,filling everything and he whispers “Please.” He says “Please don’t shoot me for this.” And he kisses me. His lips are softer than anything I've ever known, soft like a first snowfall, like biting into cotton candy, like melting and floating and being weightless in water. It’s sweet, it’s so effortlessly sweet. And then it changes. “Oh God—” He kisses me again, this time stronger, desperate, like he has to have me, like he’s dying to memorize the feel of my lips against his own. The taste of him is making me crazy; he’s all heat and desire and peppermint and I want more. I've just begun reeling him in, pulling him into me when he breaks away. He’s breathing like he’s lost his mind andhe’s looking at me like something has brokeninside of him, like he’s woken up to find that his nightmares were just that, that they never existed, that it was all just a bad dream that felt far too real but now he’s awake and he’s safe and everything is going to be okay and I’m falling. I’m falling apart and into his heart and I’m a disaster. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#love #revelation #warner #change

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#come #domination #impose #instrument #love

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#backwards #beginning #between #ending #go