Quotes about Illusion

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

the most dangerous lie is the lie that resembles the truth". Michael Youssef

We mustn't imagine that our feeling of being close to God is a true index of the reality.

She married a man who soon left her; that man became a myth; and then that myth returned home and proved to be just a man after all.

The inner, the real and the unseen are irrelevant in today's world. All that counts is appearance, and the world of consumerism has lost no time in catering to every need, and then creating even more, in this burgeoning market of the appearance.

Man's love of truth is such that when he loves something which is not the truth, he pretends to himself that what he loves is the truth, and because he hates to be proved wrong, he will not allow himself to be convinced that he is deceiving himself. So he hates the real truth for what he takes to his heart in its place.

Reality rebounds, and things turn out the opposite of what they seem and what people expect. Strength becomes weakness; love becomes pornography; pleasure becomes boredom; and so on.

For all of us, the time is short and the span of life is brief On top of that, our real human problem, the Stoic philosopher Seneca said in a direct rebuke to the modern illusion, is not just that life is short but that we waste so much of it-so that life ceases for us "just when we are getting ready for it."35 But

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

There are some things over which we may lose faith if we have confidence in God's power only. There is so much that looks like the mighty power of God that is not.