Quotes about Reality

He warps your perspective on the current events in your life until reality appears much worse and more desperate than it truly is.

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."5

When we are in the grip of lust, the reality of God fades.

But none of us can claim an innate spiritual advantage. 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!

People would be surprised to see the real Sudha. I am gawky and not well dressed in my real life.

According to that fundamental principle, language is truthful, not when the meaning attached to the words by the speaker, but when the meaning intended to be produced in the mind of the particular person addressed, is in accordance with the facts.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.

Wanting to steer toward great outcomes is noble. But trying to control the world is disastrous. In time, controllers crack under the reality that none of us are in control.

What you choose to think about yourself and about your life becomes true for you.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Facts are stubborn things.