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“To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.”

Years Firsts Spirit Religion Jesus Christianity Teach Five Holy Equal Inspired Holy Spirit Glorious Revelations Five Years Flash Inward Illumination Theological Seminary

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“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.”

Firsts Believe May Persons Made Religion Communication Accounts Revelations Can Not Obliged Incumbents Age Of Reason

Book:The Age of Reason, etc

Source: The Age of Reason, etc

“[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.”

People Giving Mean Art Reality Religion Common Emotional Exercise Satisfaction Myth Tiny Common Sense Revelations Mysticism Strongest Zero Spheres Trance

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Religion implies revelation.”

Religion Revelations

Author:Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

“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.”

Said Reason Religion Sides Lines Strange Genius Pages Revelations Premature One Line Quintessence

Author:Horace Walpole

“The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.”

May Spirit Lying Religion Rooms Christianity Principles Scripture Tendencies Revelations Word Of God Falsehood Boast Fanaticism Pretense Subversive

Author:John Calvin

“Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.”

World Religion Wonder Magic Tradition Mark Constant Atmosphere Revelations Miraculous Taboo Profane Observance

Book:Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

Source: Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

“The true contrast between science and religion is that science unites the world and makes it possible for people of widely differing backgrounds to work together and to cooperate. Religion, on the other hand, by its very claim to know “The Truth” through “revelation,” is inherently divisive and a creator of separatism and hostility.”

People Knows World Hands Together Religion Human Nature Claims Creator Backgrounds Revelations Working Together Cooperation Contrast Science And Religion Hostility

Author:Hermann Bondi

“The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”

Firsts May Character Religion Principles Mankind Infinite Blind Filled Depth Treasure Visible Revelations Display Knowledge And Wisdom

Author:John Locke

“But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.”

Book Religion Moral Doctrine Revelations

Book:An address delivered at the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill Monument. ...

Source: An address delivered at the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill Monument. ...

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

Book Religion Revelations

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?”

Made Important Religion Evolution Theology Revelations Biblical Provision

Author:E. O. Wilson