Revelation
The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.
That which is revealed.
The act of revealing divine truth.
That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible.
Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse.
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Revelation Quotations
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Voltaire
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James
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?
E. O. Wilson
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
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
Emile M. Cioran
Revelation Translations
revelation in German is Preisgebung, Offenbarung, Offenbarung
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