Revelation

"Christian truth has often been likened to a statue part buried in the sand. All is there from the beginning: but all is not equally evident: it needs the accidents of time--wind to blow the sand away and man's own exertions in excavation--to bring the statue fully to light. We have all experienced, I think, how some change in human circumstances has given added point to some passage in the scriptures which hitherto meant very little to us."

--Lance Wright, "Architectural Seriousness"