Age of reason Quote by Thomas Paine

The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation, or revealed…

— Thomas Paine

“For the righteous, the revelation is a joyous event, the realization of a divine truth. But for the wicked, revelations can be far more…

— Emily Thorne

“revelation noun rev·e·la·tion \ˌre-və-ˈlā-shən\ A pleasant, often enlightening surprise.  ”

— Sloane Kennedy

“The primary religion of mankind arises chiefly from an anxious fear of future events; and what ideas will naturally be entertained of invisible, unknown…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion implies revelation.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Any revelation that does not bring us into greater encounter only trains us to be more religious.

— Bill Johnson

“We assert boldly that God has revealed to us who He is, who we are, and how we are expected to relate to Him.…

— R.C. Sproul

“Most of all, revelation requires us to have a sufficient degree of personal righteousness, so that on occasion revelation may come to the righteous,…

— Julie B. Beck

“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

As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness.

— Rick Scarborough

“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

But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.

— Jacob Neusner