If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections – if he has any – against faith. Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone’s true character is revealed.

Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody’s against me all the time. It was something of a revelation

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion

To the scientist, there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species – if separate species we be – for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loossed upon the world.

The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

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

The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it.

The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.

Revelation replaced investigation.