Divine Revelation Quotes

“...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality... But I had gradually come by this time, i.e., 1836 to 1839, to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow at sign, &c., &c., and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.

...By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, (and that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become), that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost uncomprehensible by us, that the Gospels cannot be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, that they differ in many important details, far too important, as it seemed to me, to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitnesses; by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation. The fact that many false religions have spread over large portions of the earth like wild-fire had some weight with me. Beautiful as is the morality of the New Testament, it can be hardly denied that its perfection depends in part on the interpretation which we now put on metaphors and allegories.

But I was very unwilling to give up my belief... Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct. I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished.

And this is a damnable doctrine.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

“(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“We may convince ourselves that something is true, but that doesn’t make it true.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Reasoning built on made-up stuff isn’t rational.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Prophetic dreams are higher messages, sent by higher messengers, for higher purposes.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“All reasoning is based on either divine revelation or made-up stuff.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Can we self-generate knowledge by simply assuming things to be true? Where do assumptions come from?”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Everything is revealed beforehand, but only to those with eyes to see.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Faith isn’t making believe but comes by hearing and hearing by God’s rhema.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Real faith and reason don’t fit the mold of traditional thinking but come from the person of Christ rather than a human viewpoint. And yet we need prayer to understand them since they come from a place totally different from the usual ineffective, weak, soft, inductive ways of thinking. Those old ways of thinking process thought but never come to the knowledge of the truth.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“No foundation can be laid other than that which is laid, which is Christ Jesus. That’s the foundation of the creation side, but what’s the foundation of the evolution side? The foundation of evolution is made-up stuff. Both sides use the same physical evidence but each side uses a different foundation to reach conclusions about what the physical evidence means.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“The Creation-evolution debate isn’t about the observations, and it’s not one set of assumptions versus another set of assumptions.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“It’s always divine revelation versus made-up stuff.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“God doesn’t base His statements on assumptions. He bases His statements on the truth.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“We’re not ashamed of Jesus Christ or the divine revelation that comes from Him.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“We don’t define faith as an intellectual exercise where we either make ourselves believe (which is make-believe), or else we interpret the physical evidence while “holding to the right presuppositions.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Sound reasoning must be built on truth.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Whenever we have any experience, we interpret the experience. We interpret every observation. We then insert our interpretations of our experiences into our worldviews. We accumulate interpretations of experiences in our worldviews. Our worldviews seem like reality, but they aren’t real. We could call our worldviews “worldly wisdom.” They aren’t the wisdom that God imparts, but God speaks to us about His wisdom as compared to worldly wisdom.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Without divine revelation, human beings have no capacity to have true premises with which to conclude anything about what they observe. Schools instead are teaching students that they merely need to agree on the premises. They don’t need to prove that the premises are true since they can’t possibly prove that the premises are true without divine revelation. They teach students to base all their thinking on made-up stuff.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“Today, the Qutubs are the guardians of the message of Divine Revelations.”
― Laurence Galian, Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence

“Listen guys, sensuality can be taught, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit. It is discerned only through the Spirit.”
― Lebo Grand

“Alas, none of our divine revelations arrive with footnotes or explanations.”
― Imam Jamal Rahman, Sacred Laughter of the Sufis: Awakening the Soul with the Mulla's Comic Teaching Stories and Other Islamic Wisdom

“The gift of clairvoyance is not for the faint of heart.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“A divine revelation is God’s elbow nudging you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“To know the truth, go to bed and dream a little deep.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Bad dreams don’t come to haunt you.
They come to show you what to pray against.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Whatsoever it is that we failed to see, our dreams will reveal them to us.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“But thou hast come and all will surely change:
I shall feel the World-Mother in thy golden limbs
And hear her wisdom in thy sacred voice.

The child of the Void shall be reborn in God.

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― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“I am the inviolable Ecstasy;
They who have looked on me, shall grieve no more.

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― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“Lifting the heavy curtain of the flesh
He stood upon a threshold serpent-watched,
And peered into gleaming endless corridors,
Silent and listening in the silent heart
For the coming of the new and the unknown.

He gazed across the empty stillnesses
And heard the footsteps of the undreamed Idea
In the far avenues of the Beyond.

He heard the secret Voice, the Word that knows,
And saw the secret face that is our own.

The inner planes uncovered their crystal doors;
Strange powers and influences touched his life.

A vision came of higher realms than ours,
A consciousness of brighter fields and skies,
Of beings less circumscribed than brief-lived men
And subtler bodies than these passing frames,
Objects too fine for our material grasp,
Acts vibrant with a superhuman light
And movements pushed by a superconscient force,
And joys that never flowed through mortal limbs,
And lovelier scenes than earth’s and happier lives.

A consciousness of beauty and of bliss,
A knowledge which became what it perceived,
Replaced the separated sense and heart
And drew all Nature into its embrace.

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― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol