Quotes about Reality

Jean Jacques Rousseau was at least right about this: better to face up to one's chains than to deck them with flowers and pretend they are not chains." ? Os Guinness, A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future

As Francis Schaeffer pointed out (and his whole apologetics turned on this point), "The more logical a non-Christian is to his own presuppositions, the further he is from the real world; and the nearer he is to the real world, the more illogical he is to his presuppositions."41 There

What a mystery, what an absurdity if not true, and if true what a wonder!

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.

With the excesses of the gender revolution the revolt against terms and categories becomes a revolt against reality, and all the rest of us are pressured to deny the obvious, believe in the incredible, and go along with the charade of the emperor's new clothes. ("Only a woman can get pregnant," but such truisms are now held to be false and offensive.)

The philosopher Marar writes, "As our hearts can't stop pumping blood, so our minds can't stop pumping illusions.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.