Quotes about Reality

Within the New Testament, there is no indication that Christians should expect to be healthy, wealthy, and successful in this present age.

Our ability to sense reality is limited.

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.

The bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

No matter how good of a ball player you were, you can't keep going forever. You're not going to be able to hit .300 when you're 60. You still look around and you think, 'This is weird. Have I missed something?' Well, yeah, you have.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.

For how could I justly be blamed and prohibited from loving false things, if it were false that I loved them?

But to say there was a time when time was not, is as absurd as to say there was a man when there was no man.