Quotes About Reality

We're all dying, just some of us sooner than others.

Sooner or later, all conspiracy theories, no matter how outlandish, must eventually rest a certain set of facts. And facts can be checked.

No sense makes sense." Charles Manson

theology seeks to understand and articulate in a systematic manner information revealed to us by him. Thus theology is concerned with ultimate reality.

because it is a study of the ultimate, it defines and governs every other area of thought and life. Therefore, as long as God is the ultimate being or reality, theological reflection is the ultimate human activity.

Man needs Scripture to give him the necessary premises to truly know and to correctly reason about God and reality. The foundation of Christian sanctification consists of knowing the propositions in the Bible, and reasoning correctly with them.

Love is popularly regarded as an emotion. The main problem with this is that the Bible does not define it this way. In fact, if this anti-Christian definition is used as the operating principle, it would annihilate the reality and stability inherent in the biblical idea.

A person who does not understand biblical soteriology cannot help but have a warped sense of reality and an unsuccessful Christian life.

The gospel never claims to produce perfect people in this life, and these individuals might or might not be genuine believers in the first place.

the Bible is necessary for knowledge leading to salvation, instructions leading to spiritual growth, answers to the ultimate questions, and for knowledge about reality. It is the necessary precondition for all knowledge and for any rational apprehension of God and the universe.

The Bible contains all that is necessary to construct a complete worldview, a true view of reality.

it is by God's deliberate design and decree that human wisdom will never attain knowledge of the most basic truth about reality (God) and that it will never attain salvation on its own.

In any case, theology deals with God, who has the right and power to govern all of thought and life. God knows the nature of reality, and communicates it to us through the Bible.

If we think deeply enough, we will realize that every single proposition we speak or every action we perform presupposes a set of interrelated ultimate principles by which we perceive and respond to reality. This is our worldview.

He approved the fact that Marie Louise had never read a novel: novels, especially those by women, falsified life by giving too much place to love.

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.

One must seize the reality of one's fate and that's that.

It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in our lives immediately wrench us out of our musings, and our own adventures throw us back irrevocably upon our personal feelings—joy, boredom, suffering, anger, or a smile.

It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

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For look: people used to think that the earth was flat. That was true, and still is today, of, say, Paris to Asniéres. But that does not alter the fact that science demonstrates that the earth as a whole is round, something nobody nowadays disputes. For all that, people still persist in thinking that life is flat and runs from birth to death. But life, too, is probably round, and much greater in scope and possibilities than the hemisphere we now know.