Quotes About Reality

Although we perceive science as an ultimate truth, science is finally just a story, told in installments.

We create space and time on the surface of our retinas.

Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real.

Happily for the Allies, none of those scenarios became reality. As Dean Acheson aptly put it, "At last our enemies, with unparalleled stupidity, resolved our dilemmas, clarified our doubts and uncertainties, and united our people for the long, hard course that the national interest required.

Ed Murrow] admitted he was having trouble coming to grips with the idea of peace: "Trying to realize what has happened, one's mind takes refuge in the past. The war that was seems more real than the peace that has come.

Those who thought of collaboration in simplistic terms could not comprehend the reality of trying to survive in an uncivilized, unstable environment in which the norms of society had broke down.

and one who has not lived through it could never believe what happened.

Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema noted that "through the entire war, one dream never left us, not for single day : our homecoming to Holland as we remembered it. We did come home, but the memory was crushed by reality and the dream exploded. Our country lay before us unrecognizable, emaciated like a wretch from a concentration camp. We couldn't cope....

It seems to me that the only way to strengthen the morale of the people whose morale is worth strengthening, is to tell them the truth, and nothing but the truth, even if the truth is horrible." Clark

But living amid so many words, I overestimated their power and breadth. The world does not turn on words alone; it only seems to if the eye and mind are saturated with them.

Reality disappoints regularly. When people are supposed to have fun, it's likely they won't, because fun can't live up to its image. Does anything live up to its image?

Myths and superstitions have power over us only to the extent that we believe them, but when we believe, we live completely under their spell

Hoping doesn't mean I put myself in harm's way. It doesn't mean I ignore reality. No, hoping means I acknowledge reality in the very same breath that I acknowledge God's sovereignty.

If we live rooted and established in His love, we don't just have knowledge of His love in our minds, but it becomes a reality that anchors us.

At some point we must stop: 1. Replaying what happened over and over. 2. Taking what was actually terrible in the past and tricking ourselves into thinking it was better than it was. 3. Imagining the ways things should be so much that we can't acknowledge what is.

So the human heart was created in the context of the perfection of the garden of Eden. But we don't live there now. This is why our instincts keep firing off the lie that perfection is possible. We have pictures of perfection etched into the very DNA of our souls.

We can't live in an alternate reality and expect what's right in front of us to get better.

So, while there are still good things in this world, the world is no longer a perfect reflection of God's goodness.

We can't look to our feelings to determine truth. We must look to truth to rein in our feelings.

What we look for is what we will see, what we see determines our perspective, and our perspective determines our reality.

In the middle of the pain you didn't cause, the change you didn't want, or the reality you didn't know was coming . . . your life can still be beautiful.

The space between our expectations and our reality is a fertile field, and it's the perfect place to grow a bumper crop of disappointment.

And honestly, I'm tired of knowing I have issues but having no clue how to rein them in on a given day. I need something simple. A quick reality check I can remember in the midst of the everyday messies.

In other words, they had seen a lot. They had heard a lot. But they had not personally applied what they'd seen and heard. Their hearts were not tender to the reality of Jesus. Their hearts were hardened. Access without application will not equal transformation.