#revelation

You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake it. I don't blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I would not have believed it myself. I never did harm any man since I was born in the world. My voice is always for peace. ↗

— Joseph Smith Jr.

#revelation #religion

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

— Madeleine L'Engle

#revelation #zeal #zealous #art

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#form #giving #life #like #me

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#dependence #falling #feeling #his #know

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#human #least #lesson #our #reason

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#become #being #child #differently #look

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#discover #nothing #pride #revelation #you

The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#care #did #disturbing #having #health

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#else #everything #find #front #further

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#perilous #revelation #revolution #than