Revelations Quotes - Page 3

Art is the clothing of a revelation

I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.

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

God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.

I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction.

Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

The ability to embrace mystery is what attracts revelation.

I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God.

This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.

an artist is always seeking revelation.

From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

If you have never tasted a braised vegetable, you'll find it is a revelation.

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul

Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation.

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer.

God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.

There never was a revelation without a question first.

If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.