Quotes about Reality

The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject.

Truth will prevail.

All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Imagine if our negative feelings, or at least lots of them, turned out to be illusions, and we could dispel them by just contemplating them from a particular vantage point.

Christianity is different, first, because of grace; second, because it's testable; and third, because it paints a picture that matches the way the world is, in a way that other religions don't.

Back at my motel, I mentally played back my interview with Boyd. I felt the same way he did: If the Jesus of faith is not also the Jesus of history, he's powerless and he's meaningless. Unless he's rooted in reality, unless he established his divinity by rising from the dead, he's just a feel-good symbol who's as irrelevant as Santa Claus.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?

Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.