Quotes about Reality

One cannot mount from reality to the righteousness of God, because reality can only be known through the explaining word of revelation. The Light that illumines the world is found only in faith.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

You won't hear a character's friend say this in a romantic comedy. Taylor Swift won't sing this, Eminem won't rap it, and Suzanne Collins won't write it, but it's true: just because you're "in love" with someone doesn't mean you should seriously consider marrying them.

The reality of the human condition is such that, according to Porter (and I agree), we must "salvage our fragments of happiness" out of life's inevitable sufferings.

Chapter 12 follows up by teaching the sad but essential reality that in order to maintain our mission before God, we must learn how to be hated without letting it distract or destroy us.

We never slept together until our wedding night, so the honeymoon was a rather intoxicating experience, but once the honeymoon was over, reality immediately set in like a dense Seattle fog.

Getting married won't make you happy or an adult; getting married simply makes you … married.

Though he was indeed a humble man, he never sought the glory of humility, but only its reality. He wanted no one but God to witness what he did, just as the only reward he expected was God Himself.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Discipline must conform to the nature of things in their suchness.

Acceptance of death. — The round of summer and winter becomes a blessing the moment we give up the fantasy of eternal spring.