Quotes about Reality

The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal. It

The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality. Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Fiction is not the opposite of truth—indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.

Reality's such a pain sometimes, you know?

Many people conclude that God can't be real, because we can't see Him. And Heaven can't be real, because we can't see it. But we must recognize our blindness. The blind must take by faith that there are stars in the sky. If they depend on their ability to see, they will conclude there are no stars.

The devil specializes in rearranging price tags, making the cheap look valuable and the miserable appear happy. (For example, if, before the purchase, people saw photos of themselves after five years of using methamphetamines, would they still buy them?)

Montaigne said something that rings true for many of us: "My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.

I'd lived my life in a dim labyrinth of drudgery disguised as fun and pleasure.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (NIV)

But earth is not heaven." "And those who expect it to be," Dani said, "can never know Joy.

we fail to take seriously what Scripture tells us about Heaven as a familiar,  physical, tangible place.