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  • The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
  • McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation. -- Clive Sinclair
  • Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. -- Kenneth L. Pike
  • Reverence invites Revelation -- Boyd K. Packer
  • Revelation replaced investigation. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Revelation is always measured by capacity. -- Margaret Barber
  • Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion. -- Chris Oyakhilome
  • Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling. -- Marya Mannes
  • Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes -- Emily Dickinson
  • The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment. -- Ralph Adams Cram
  • The highest revelation is that God is in every man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind -- Benjamin Franklin
  • I can fill a church speaking on Revelation and empty it speaking on Romans. -- J. Vernon McGee
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  • An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. -- William James
  • The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person. -- Emil Brunner
  • There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. -- Kenneth L. Pike
  • Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express. -- Zadie Smith
  • We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation. -- Fulton J. Sheen
  • They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. Revelation 12:11 -- Beth Moore
  • If the path isn't in front of you, you can't choose to walk it." - Viriathus, Revelation -- R.P. Miller
  • The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it. -- Elaine Pagels
  • The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil. -- Elaine Pagels
  • If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins. -- Jud Wilhite
  • The main subject in the Bible from the beginning of Genesis through Revelation is none other than Jesus. -- Charles E. Fuller
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  • If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.' -- Jud Wilhite
  • To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation. -- Philip Schaff
  • How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned? -- Michael R. Burch
  • When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation. -- Thomas Ken
  • Revelation has not ceased. The Heavens are not closed. God speaks to prophets today, and He will speak to you. -- Lawrence E. Corbridge
  • For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness. -- Randall Terry
  • Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men. -- Marion G. Romney
  • The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded. -- Megan Fox
  • I've read the Book of Revelation a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded. -- Megan Fox
  • The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is God's "I Will" to every seeker for full salvation of spirit, soul and body. -- Kenneth E. Hagin
  • ...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation. -- Joseph Sobran
  • When you don't know where you are going in life (No Clear Destination), you don't need direction... you need Divine Revelation -- Fela Durotoye
  • I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation. -- David Kim
  • If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all. -- Dwight L. Moody
  • The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world. -- Tim LaHaye
  • In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back. -- Philip Yancey
  • Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Revelation is God's way of telling humanity that he is afraid of their possibility; the possibility of one day being able to surpass even him. -- Lionel Suggs
  • Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side. -- Horace Walpole
  • No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John. -- Jürgen Moltmann
  • Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. -- Eileen Caddy
  • We believe that all men are the spirit children of God, created in his image. This concept is supported by the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation. -- Hugh B. Brown
  • The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days. -- Ellen G. White
  • What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation. -- Romano Guardini
  • The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically , as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy. -- Northrop Frye
  • Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation. -- Ibn Arabi
  • Revelation isn't just end time's prophecy, it's God showing off his Son and his glory and honoring us, his treasured bride, with a seat at his table forever! -- Jennifer Rothschild
  • Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. -- David A. Bednar
  • From Genesis to Revelation, here's the central message: God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God, the Triune God is in control of all things, period. -- Charles Stanley
  • Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John. -- Boris Pasternak
  • Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation. -- Roma Downey
  • Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side. -- Thomas Chatterton
  • The Antichrist is often identified with the second beast in the Book of Revelation that arises from the land, the beast that tries to make everyone worship the power of evil. -- Elaine Pagels
  • Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object. -- J. I. Packer
  • The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma. -- Jef I. Richards
  • I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
  • God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting of mind with mind or person with person. -- Sam Storms
  • The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular. -- H. L. Mencken
  • When Satan tempted Adam, he was disguised as a serpent; when Satan tempted Jesus, he was not disguised. As we approach the End of the Age, Satan will gradually unmask himself. Matthew 24 and Revelation 13 -- Felix Wantang
  • Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance. -- Elie Wiesel
  • A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame. -- William Gilmore Simms
  • One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of Revelation to prove us wrong only to find that what we said was there. -- Tim LaHaye
  • We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected. -- Alistair Begg
  • Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I found I was thinking about a number of themes, one of which has to do with politics and religion. -- Elaine Pagels
  • The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around. -- Julia Glass
  • Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. -- Georg Simmel
  • Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time. -- Margot Fonteyn
  • Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic. -- John Perry Barlow
  • Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. -- Karl Barth
  • The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation. -- David A. Bednar
  • If people all over the world, year after year, request that you do 'Revelations,' you do 'Revelations.' -- Judith Jamison
  • Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
  • People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation. -- Elias Hicks
  • Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page. -- Francis Collins
  • Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
  • As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers. -- Graydon Carter
  • The Last Patriot' is set in the present day but is based upon the premise that the Prophet Mohammed had a final revelation, he shared it with his disciples, and they killed him to keep it hidden and out of the Qur'an. If this missing revelation can be found, its impact on the world will be incredible. -- Brad Thor
  • Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. -- Robert Fitzgerald
  • There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. -- Nelson Mandela
  • The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. -- Hermann Hesse
  • The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is. -- Jupiter Hammon
  • You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me. -- Nicolas Roeg
  • Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people. -- Andrew Young
  • 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
  • Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality. -- Linus Pauling
  • Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence. -- David A. Bednar
  • For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings. -- Otto Frank
  • I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. -- Paulo Coelho
  • 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
  • I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable. -- J. Tillman
  • When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in. -- Penn Jillette
  • The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was. -- Hans Jonas
  • Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope. -- Elaine Pagels
  • Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will? -- David Augsburger
  • I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics. -- Elaine Pagels
  • The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public, by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples. -- Scott Anderson
  • Religion implies revelation. -- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
  • [Science is] piecemeal revelation. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • The greatest revelation is stillness. -- Laozi
  • All good work requires self-revelation. -- Sidney Lumet
  • Our growing thought Makes growing revelation. -- George Eliot
  • When revelation comes write it down. -- Richard G. Scott
  • an artist is always seeking revelation. -- Pearl S. Buck
  • History is the revelation of Providence. -- Lajos Kossuth
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