Quotes about Reality

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

It was as true… as turnips is. It was as true… as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

In London, he had expected neither to walk on pavements of gold, nor to lie on beds of roses; if he had had any such exalted expectation, he would not have prospered. He had expected labour, and he found it, and did it and made the best of it. In this, his prosperity consisted.

Yet it did seem (though not to him, for he saw nothing of it) as if fantastic hope could take as strong a hold as Fact. p.

'Tis curious that we only believe as deep as we live.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Satan, whom Paul labeled as "the god of this evil world," is so clever that he has fooled many people into thinking that he doesn't even exist—while in reality he controls their very lives.

Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do something tangible about it. You can read books, take a class, or talk to someone about it. But what can you do when you're already convinced it's true but don't experience it as real?