Quotes about Reality

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.

He who does not fear the truth should fear a lie and should worship an image or a phantom as God.

We do not then reject good works; nay, we embrace them and teach them in the highest degree. It is not on their own account that we condemn them, but on account of this impious addition to them and the perverse notion of seeking justification by them. These things cause them to be only good in outward show, but in reality not good, since by them men are deceived and deceive others, like ravening wolves in sheep's clothing.

21. A theologian of glory calls evil good and good evil. A theologian of the cross calls a thing what it actually is.

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and temporal.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God....Dropping their present beliefs, they will recognize harmony and as the spiritual reality and discord as the material unreality. Chapter VII pp. 224 and 228 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.