Definition of Revelation

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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

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela

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

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 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

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
Tennessee Williams

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Revelation Translations

revelation in German is Preisgebung, Offenbarung, Offenbarung

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