Quotes About Reality

In sum: the church exists to be a living exhibit of the reality of the gospel.

Christian doctrine grows disciples by teaching them to perceive, name, and act in ways that demonstrate the reality of the gospel, speaking and showing what is "in Christ.

The truth is that there is a world of difference between looking beautiful and being beautiful.

if Earth is reduced to the size of a bacteria, and inspected under high-powered optics, would it seem stranger than a virus?

When I speak about marriage, I often quote this equation: E – R = D (Expectations minus Reality equals Disillusionment). That little equation can apply to a lot of things in family living, but another equation fits blended families much more aptly: N × R = C (Naïveté times Reality equals Chaos).

Memories are also tainted by lies.

There are all sorts of lies you tell yourself over and over until you accept them as readily as you do your own skin. And it isn't always easy to recognize them as lies.

We tell each other stories to muffle the surprise of disappointment.

Do you know if a kangaroo can jump higher than a house? Of course it does, a house does not jump at all. 2.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

The world was still rushing in—legally and illegally, as it turned out—not to escape reality in California, to bask in the unearned increment, but to struggle competitively in a society that had only recently begun to internalize in its myth of itself what the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno called the tragic sense of life.

When your attitude is right, the facts don't matter, because what you think are facts are mostly opinions.

She is prettier than her picture had prepared me for, blond curls, big blue eyes, like a fake child that someone would make in order to convince people to have children.

In the car, driving home from the airport, the Fangs did not speak a single word. It had all been fake, a choreographed event, but they could not escape the dread that rattled inside their chests. It was a testament to their proficiency and talent as artists. They had affected themselves with the authenticity of the moment.

We were never young.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

how much of what he told me of his past was true and how much he made up to hold my interest.

When bullets fly about, what is the point of sticking out your head and getting shot? The bullet is neutral. It hits the good and the bad, the important and insignificant, without distinction.

Sot genjeshtra mbulon te verteten kur ne pozit te ulet ndodhet. Pamja bie me shume ne sy kurse brendesia nuk kerkohet.

If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.

Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

Reality 101 is the hardest course your college kid will ever take.