Quotes about Real

Only presence can know presence. And our real presence can know Real Presence.

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

The result is that in the Christian world in the West, we settle for a cultural version of Christianity that is far from the real thing.

Do you know what that means? 'Man of God.' An odd name, isn't it? It teaches us that what we call angels are only men. There are no real angels. And men? Oh, there are men, all right, unfortunately for the angels and for ourselves. And what is worse is that they are real.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

The only true love is grace. All else is a counterfeit.

The devil is not fighting religion. Hes too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.

If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.

Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.