Quotes About Reality

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them.

Suddenly everything finally made sense because, paradoxically, I finally accepted that it never would make sense. That's life. It's not all wrapped up with a tidy bow - it's crazy and disorganized and unpredictable, and so are the people who live it.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

Taking out a criminal was easier than phoning home.

Lies are unattended truths

He felt shocked. But he also felt in some way relieved, for it is better to admit some facts, even hard, bitter facts, than to go on pretending that they don't exist.

Don't think you are a great person just because you are a star in a given sport and win all the time because the next time, you may lose—and the time after that.

Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions.

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

Wir glauben nur das, was wir sehen. Darum glauben wir alles, seit es das Fernsehen gibt.

God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.

The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out.

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

The world is not divided between Christ and the devil; it is completely the world of Christ, whether it recognizes this or not. As this reality in Christ it is to be addressed, and thus the false reality that it imagines itself to have, in itself or in the devil, is to be destroyed. The dark, evil world may not be surrendered to the devil, but must be claimed for the one who won it by coming in the flesh, by the death and resurrection of Christ.

Christian community is not an ideal we have to realize, but rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate. The more clearly we learn to recognize that the ground and strength and promise of all our community is in Jesus Christ alone, the more calmly we will learn to think about our community and pray and hope for it.

Since God, however, as ultimate reality is no other than the self-announcing, self-witnessing, self-revealing God in Jesus Christ, the question of good can only find its answer in Christ.

In Christ we are invited to participate in the reality of God and the reality of the world at the same time, the one not without the other.

Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.

I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just be our true selves.

The source of a Christian ethic is not the reality of one's own self, not the reality of the world, nor is it the reality of norms and values. It is the reality of God that is revealed in Jesus Christ.

The attempt to understand reality apart from that action of God in and upon reality means living in anabstraction; it means failing to live in reality and vacillating between the extremes of a servile attitude toward the status quo and a protest in principle against it. Only God's becoming human makes possible an action that is genuinely in accord with reality. The world remains world. But it only does so because God has taken care of it and declared it to be under God's rule.

The wise man is the one who sees reality as it is, and who sees into the depths of things. That is why only that man is wise who sees reality in God. To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest.