R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Reveal yourself, mage! Only a coward stays cloaked in invisibility.”
Source: First Rider's Call: Book Two of Green Rider
“Revealed for what they are, thoughts lose their power. Watching them come and go, dissolving as easily as they arose, you have a choice about what you pay attention to and what you disregard. They have power only to the extent that you give it to them.”
Source: Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game
“Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not.”
Source: An Abundant Life: The Memoirs of Hugh B. Brown
“Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
“Revealed religion has no weight with me.”
“Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.”
Source: Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible
“Revealing of origin , evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well.”
“Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent...Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes. gr we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes.”
“Revealing the truth is like lighting a match, it can bring light or it can set your world on fire.”
“Revealing the truth of daemonkind would have strengthened them enormously, for men would never have been able to put them from their thoughts, and that made them strong.
The Emperor had been trying to save humanity from the horror of its own mind.”
Source: Plague War
“Revealing yourself, physically or emotionally, to cast and crew is frequently uncomfortable. But it is essential if you want to to tell the truth. I felt more at ease being bold with some than I did with others. I was incredibly fortunate to have worked with Randy Harrison as Justin Taylor. We share enough taste in music and art to have had a real camaraderie, and luckily that evolved into a deep friendship.”
“Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so.”
“REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Reveka and Heinrich both possessed gentle strength — a power that effortlessly won the hearts of their people.”
Source: Queen of Archers
“Revel in grossness. Leave food in your teeth. Proudly display feminine hygiene products.”
Source: How Not to Be Popular
“Revel in the beauty of war. Fill yourselves with adrenaline and euphoria and be drunk from victory and forget that a gang of psychos want to pull the democracy you live in from beneath your feet.”
“Revelation 16:16 calls it the "war of the great day of God the Almighty," Armageddon. This war will come in the twentieth century. It will come right on schedule, as have the wars, food shortages, earthquakes and other events foretold. This generation will see its fulfillment.”
Source: The 20th Century in Bible Prophecy
“Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.”
“Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.”
Source: Ada, Or, Ardor, a Family Chronicle
“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.”
Source: God Has Spoken
“Revelation has not ceased. The Heavens are not closed. God speaks to prophets today, and He will speak to you.”
“Revelation, I argue, leads to the completion and fulfillment of political philosophy, not in any necessary or artificial way, but as an intelligible response to valid questions posed in the discipline itself. Revelation is a gift; it does not arise from human sources. It is not something that could be demanded or commanded. It is a rational gift. . . .Aquinas remains a key to the compatibility of reason and revelation. (At the Limits of Political Philosophy)”
“Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“Revelation is always measured by capacity.”
Source: The Roadmender
“Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is more direct than every word, for it arises out of the truth of who you are. This truth is all you have ever longed for, all you have ever needed.”
“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.”
“Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it can not be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to ME, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.”
Source: The Age of Reason, etc
“Revelation is revealed reality.”
“Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.”
Source: The Normal Christian Life
“Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.”
“Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.”
Source: White Teeth
“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!”
“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.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“Revelation need not all come at once. It may be incremental. 'Saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more' (2 Nephi 28:30). Patience and perseverance are part of our eternal progression.”
“Revelation replaced investigation.”
“Revelation, the last chapter of the Bible can appear like a house of horrors with unimaginable creatures within it. Who dares to enter?”
Source: God's Cry to the Church
“Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion.”
“Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind”
Source: Works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life, written by himself : together with essays, humourous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator : in two volumes
“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.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Revelations are found in clouds.”
Source: Urban Shaman
“Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.”
Source: Bruiser
“Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself”
“Revelations help us accept the things we need the most, expose the secrets we so desperately try to hide and illuminate the dangers all around us. But more than anything, revelations are windows into our true selves... of the good and the evil and those wavering somewhere in between. But they have the ultimate power to destroy all that we cherish most.”
“Revelations is as necessary as reason.”
“Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.”
“Revelers in green stumbled from pub to pub as I drove away yesterday from springtime in Washington, a collage of the organic and the man-made--- redbud and sidewalk, dogwood and car. Small trees in the easement showed feathery pink blossoms.
I've left the delicacy of spring for a hot, sodden green, the cruise control carrying me south through Virginia and the Carolinas, Georgia, and farther on toward the place where Florida's panhandle curves in and resort beaches fade into a coastline of dense and mangrove and fingerling waterways. Slightly inland from the Gulf sits my hometown of Tenetkee, where the water transitions slowly to land.”
Source: The Marsh Queen
“Revelry isn't just the debauched pursuit of mindless, excessive--and often cruel-- pleasures as King Oberon and Titania have turned it into. It is supposed to be a place of art. No matter how seemingly frivolous, art can give a laugh, a light, a spark of pleasure relieves sorrow and uplifts the soul. It can tell truths and reach hearts better than dry, pedantic tomes. That's the true purpose of the Court of Revels.”
Source: Stolen Midsummer Bride
“Revenge and punishment both imply, “Even if I’d been you, and I’d had your life, I would never have done what you did.” And that in turn implies, “I wouldn’t have done it, because I’m better than you.” But the person who says, “I’m better than you” is taking a serious step in a very dangerous direction. And the person who says, “Even if I’d had your life, I would never have done what you did” is very probably wrong.”
Source: Night Thoughts
“Revenge and rational thought never sleep together.”
Source: Hammered
“Revenge be the dish I serve to cats cold.”