Quotes about Reality

God creates history, while people create an epic or a drama, drawn either from God's history or from unreality and pure fiction.

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately must we believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer made the observation that when lust takes control, "At this moment God . . . loses all reality. . . . Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God.

At this moment [of lust] God . . . loses all reality. . . . Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God" (Dietrich Bonhoeffer).

In reality, we are all equally disadvantaged. None of us naturally seeks after God, none is inherently righteous, none instinctively does good (cf. Romans 3:9-18). Therefore, as children of grace, our spiritual discipline is everything — everything! I repeat . . . discipline is everything!

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

'Bigg Boss' was not a house, it was a house-like situation and being an actor, I had to take care of the way I looked on screen.