Quotes about Reality

There're some things that can't be helped. They just are. You either live with them or you don't. Simple as that. There's nothing simple about it. You got that right. You certainly got that right.

Wanted all my questions answered and everything wrapped and tied with a bow. But life is not neat bows and nice packages. Life is messy and you don't get all your questions answered.

Don't be misled by those who claim God doesn't exist, because He does.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.

She knew it was there, would always be there, but she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was life and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside herself.

Six months into the bliss of edible sex, free-style music, challenging books and the company of an easy undemanding Bride, the fairy-tale castle collapsed into the mud and sand on which its vanity was built. And Booker ran away.

He is who He was, and He is also who He will be because the great I Am never steps out of the present tense.

Of ultimate importance, then, is not that I become good, or that the condition of the world be improved by my efforts, but that the reality of God show itself everywhere to be the ultimate reality.

In sum: the church exists to be a living exhibit of the reality of the gospel.