#revelation

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#believes #feeling #his #interior #own

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#black #ever #everything #find #found

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#best #best part #call #emotion #hearts

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth. ↗

— Carly Simon

#bit #connection #deeper #dig #emotional

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#book #mormon #none #our #religion

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#come #either #heaven #hell #i

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God. ↗

— John Strachan

#carry #colonies #confer #distinguished #free

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#events #find #happen #lives #order

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. ↗

— John Biddle

#both #calling #earnest #embrace #find

Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#insight #revelation #self-esteem #self-love #love