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Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God. -- Karl Rahner
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition. -- Michel Onfray
Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality. -- Sam Mendes
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited. -- Gottfried Leibniz
If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality. -- David Friedrich Strauss
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. -- Paul Tillich
My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God. -- Seamus Heaney
I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people. -- Erwin McManus
Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck. -- J. I. Packer
The Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge. -- James E. Faust
Thierry Mugler is about the power of glamour and walking straight into the future. He's been a god for successive generations in the fashion industry. He fused pop and high fashion, told a story in style and combined fantasy with reality. -- Nicola Formichetti
Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience. -- John Shelby Spong
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description. -- Marilynne Robinson
To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that. -- Courtney Thorne-Smith
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god. -- Tim Wise
I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being. -- John Shelby Spong
When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls. -- Michael Huffington
Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God. -- Lucy Larcom
If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights. -- Jon Meacham
Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference. -- Damien Fahey
Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality. -- Gwen John
God is not an objective correlative reality. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Man is an appearance, God is a reality. -- Kedar Joshi
Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it! -- Edward Abbey
Since God created the world, He also created reality. -- Pope Francis
To argue with reality is to argue with God -- Byron Katie
I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality. -- Martha Reeves
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view. -- Philip Yancey
Reality makes no sense at all, except possibly from God's point of view -- Lori Singer
I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words. -- Pat Buckley
When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God. -- Arthur W. Pink
Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God. -- Tom Stoppard
The only reality is God. There cannot be another and God is love. -- Linda Stewart
Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All are called to be what in the reality of God they already are. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Faith never denies reality but leaves room for God to grant a new reality. -- Jim Cymbala
He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love. -- Deepak Chopra
Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go. -- Pauline Kael
Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation. -- James MacDonald
The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history. -- Eric Metaxas
Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use -- Arthur C. Clarke
Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion. -- Jerry Bridges
Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself. -- Francis Schaeffer
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality. -- Stephen Levine
A god that does not manifest in reality is indistinguishable from a god that does not exist. -- Matt Dillahunty
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality. -- Harold S. Kushner
God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind. -- Peter Shepherd
There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings. -- Rumi
Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world. -- Floyd McClung
There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge. -- J. I. Packer
Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality. -- Henry Cloud
Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality. -- Timothy Keller
Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability. -- Priscilla Shirer
God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I'm led to. -- Lauryn Hill
Someone's opinion of you isn't reality... unless you decide to allow it!! You are who God says you are!!! -- Paula White
Oftentimes people expect Christians to be perfect but the reality isSpiritual perfection is imperfection! God then does His best work. -- Sanjo Jendayi
The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss. -- Ray Comfort
When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God. -- Margaret Feinberg
Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications. -- James MacDonald
I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth. -- George Russell
God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality. -- C.J. Anderson
God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality. -- Bill Hicks
[God is] an all-encompassing love that is the source of all, the reality of all, and the being through which I am. -- Marianne Williamson
In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality. -- Bernadette Roberts
Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality. -- C.J. Anderson
Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality. -- C. S. Lewis
Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God. -- R. S. Thomas
The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God. -- Paul Virilio
In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same. -- John E. Hines
An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else. -- Nancy Pearcey
With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time. -- Simon McBurney
Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you. -- Bill Hicks
As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals. -- Mark Galli
For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought. -- Bayazid Bastami
Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality. -- Frederick William Robertson
True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance. -- Mark Thomas
When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints. -- Oswald Chambers
Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation. -- Mark Batterson
Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all. -- John K. Brown
The tonal is so strong, that it even arranges a syntactical place for God and thus kills the mystery, the reality, and paralyzes the being. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love. -- Oswald Chambers
Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death. -- Billy Graham
I want to do another reality show. It's based on The Mole. It's about sexually transmitted diseases. It's called "God, I Hope That's a Mole." -- Zach Galifianakis
I don't believe in God, but I do believe in that chaotic reality, and also this: that none of us knows anything about anything. Period. -- Emily Susan Rapp
If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut? -- Herrick Johnson
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral. -- John Ortberg
God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything! -- Michael Dowd
Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him. -- Geoffrey Wood
god is similar to the relation of the water of ocean to the waves of the ocean the sole Reality of the waves is the Water. -- Sushil Singh
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If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
... there are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in the Christ event/redemption and creation. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Excuse me while I light my spliff, Good God I gotta take a lift, From reality I just cant drift, That's why I'm staying with this riff -- Bob Marley
The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows -- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him. -- Ravi Zacharias
The kingdom of God, which Jesus came to inaugurate, is meant to create an alternate reality in this world, and ultimately to transform the kingdoms of this world. -- Jim Wallis
Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence. -- David Hawkins
All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God. -- John Piper
That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases. -- Max Muller
Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God. -- Patrick Swift
Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy. -- Ann Voskamp
The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time. -- John Berger
The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff. -- Criss Jami
Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration. -- Karen Armstrong

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