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“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals;…

— Eugene Peterson

“It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-hand, either verbally or in writing.…

— Thomas Paine

“We affirm that the written Word in its entirety is revelation given by God. We deny that the Bible is merely a witness to…

— R.C. Sproul

“Though our language, and especially our language about God, is never comprehensive and exhaustive in its ability to capture eternal truths, nevertheless it is…

— R.C. Sproul

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that…

— Audre Lorde

“Revelation when applied to religion, means something communicated immediately from God to man. It is revelation to the first person only, and hearsay to…

— Thomas Paine

Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our…

— John Locke

One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as…

— Richard M. Weaver

“The revelation of God is a determinate revelation, given at a particular epoch: God revealed himself once and for all in the year so…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

“The proper method of interpreting the symbols in Revelation involves two steps. The first is to remember that when symbols are employed, they refer…

— Mark Hitchcock

Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation…

— Thomas Paine

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

— Noam Chomsky