Quotes about Reality

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.

To be a priest is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.

One of the quietest revolutions in Religion 101 follows a student's recognition that he or she has a worldview, a particular way of viewing reality that it is not the only way. A worldview is a wave, but not the entire ocean.

If I trust what I see on my phone more than what I see out my window, what does it mean to believe that the real world is not where I live?

Codi: "So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can't think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives." Loyd: "Only if you have an ordinary life. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life."

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

Don't use your words to describe your reality. Use your words to create your desired reality.

I like physically-demanding reality shows, not dance and music shows.

I think reality television has made the fashion industry and the beauty industry, any industry - frankly, just life - it has made life seem much different than it really is.

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.