#revelation

The prospect of happiness has a way of clouding up a person’s vision. When you are in love, the kind of love that comes way too fast and way too strong, the flaws of that person you love seem to disappear. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened to me. ↗

— Chamera Sampson

#flaws #love #revelation #love

The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful puzzle. And come it did, yet not in the way she imagined and expected. ↗

— Algernon Blackwood

#creepy #horror #revelation #imagination

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#any #cannot #condemned #divine #find

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. ↗

— Max Ernst

#decorative #discovery #either #every #every time

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#encountered #first #first time #great #minor

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#bed #gulf #happened #i #i think

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive. ↗

— William S. Paley

#conceive #made #miracles #none #revelation

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#claims #embody #frequent #high #impressive

The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#holy-spirit #revelation #faith

All good work requires self-revelation. ↗

— Sidney Lumet

#hard-work #quality #realization #self-revelation #movies