Quotes about Real
They are descriptions of what real life looks like, not prescriptions for how to get life.
- Gregory Boyd
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It's like a battery that has to have a positive and a negative. One doesn't work without the other. You've gotta have the good and the bad in order to know what's right, and in order to know what's real and what ain't.
- Dolly Parton
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.
- John Wesley
In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.
- George Bernard Shaw
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
- Oscar Wilde
All the human talent, cleverness, and church-growth methods in the world can never compare with the invisible but very real blessing of God.
- Jim Cymbala
He told me he wanted the chance to be in love again. He has no idea that being in love is bullshit. It's knowing someone down to their soul that matters. That's what love is. It's difficult and it's real and it doesn't change.
- Alice Hoffman
First John 4:10 says, "This is real loveānot that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
- Joel Osteen