Quotes about Reality

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

When you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.

Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

Truth never perishes (Veritas numquam perit).

But liturgy is meant to be an interruption. It disrupts our reality and refocuses it on God. It reshapes our perceptions and lives with new rhythms, new holy days, a whole new story.

Sin, too, is real. All we have to do is look at the news or, if our vision is good enough, look in the mirror.

to believe in another world despite the evidence around us, and to watch the evidence change.

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

You might categorize your own fear as anxiety. But while the reality of fear is different for each of us, one thing remains constant: fear robs us of joy. When fear takes center stage, we find it impossible to live in the "what is" because of the "what might be.

We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.