Quotes about Reality
When we do the will of God, we bring Kingdom reality crashing into the works of the devil. We initiate conflict between earthly reality and heavenly reality, becoming the bridge and connection point that makes it possible through prayer and radical obedience to assert the rulership of God.
— Bill Johnson
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
— St. Basil
Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.
— John Updike
Remember, then, that the real thing in your experience is what your will decides, and not the verdict of your emotions; and that you are far more in danger of hypocrisy and untruth in yielding to the assertions of your feelings, than in holding fast to the decision of your will. So that, if your will is on God's side, you are no hypocrite at this moment in claiming as your own the blessed reality of belonging altogether to Him, even though your emotions may all declare the contrary.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.
— Henri Nouwen
Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation.
— James MacDonald
Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.
— Billy Graham
It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.
— Mother Angelica
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
— CS Lewis
The truth is more important than the facts.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes the truth is stupid.
— Roger Williams