#revelation

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#appears #character #common #divine #enjoys

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

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself. ↗

— Susannah McCorkle

#become #billie #billie holiday #desire #first

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion. ↗

— Origen

#became #been #clearly #fathers #him

It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#authorized #baptize #god #grievous #him

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

...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me... ↗

— John Geddes

#knowledge #life #lights #mapless-life #moon

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors. ↗

— James W. Sire

#revelation #truth #ideology

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#revelation #strange

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#revelation #zeal #zealous #art