Quotes about Reality
Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story.
— Donald Miller
We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.
— JC Ryle
what miserable creatures great men are when they have no high principles within them and no faith in the reality of a God above them.
— JC Ryle
The Bible alone gives a true and faithful account of man. It does not flatter him as novels and romances do; it does not conceal his faults and exaggerate his goodness, it paints him just as he is.
— JC Ryle
men try to cheat themselves into the belief that sin is not quite so sinful as God says it is, and that they are not so bad as they really are.
— JC Ryle
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
— JM Coetzee
The truth is the truth. You are better off knowing the truth than not knowing it.
— Jack Canfield
God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
— Luis Palau
Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.
— Lynn Austin
The reality of life as His disciple, as one of "the sheep of his pasture" (Psalm 100:3), is a life of complete helplessness in a harsh environment, trusting the shepherd to lead us and feed us.
— Lynn Austin
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.
— Lysa TerKeurst