Quotes about Reality

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep?

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

A form of self-delusion.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.