--- title: "63 Reality God Quotes by 51 authors" description: "Browse 63 Reality God quotes by 51 authors. Discover the best Reality God sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/tom-stoppard-437_atheism_atheism-is-a-crutch-for-those-who-cannot_1258327.png" --- > [Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-stoppard/atheism-is-a-crutch-for-those-who-cannot-bear-the-reality-of-god/) [Tom Stoppard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-stoppard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/tom-stoppard-437_atheism_atheism-is-a-crutch-for-those-who-cannot_1258327.png) > [Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-yancey/prayer-is-the-act-of-seeing-reality-from-god-s-point-of-view/) [Philip Yancey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-yancey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a46/philip-yancey-840_point-of-view_prayer-is-the-act-of-seeing-reality-from_1062540.png) > [“The great unseen reality is God”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-w-tozer/the-great-unseen-reality-is-god/) [A.W. Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-w-tozer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/633/a-w-tozer-1151_god_the-great-unseen-reality-is-god-2209519_2209519.jpg) > [“When we are in the grip of lust, the reality of God fades.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-kent-hughes/when-we-are-in-the-grip-of-lust-the-reality-of-god-fades/) [R. Kent Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-kent-hughes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bb/r-kent-hughes-16131_lust_when-we-are-in-the-grip-of-lust-the-real_996864.png) > [The only reality is God. There cannot be another and God is love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-stewart/the-only-reality-is-god-there-cannot-be-another-and-god-is-love/) Linda Stewart [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3e/linda-stewart-88885_god-is-love_the-only-reality-is-god-there-cannot-be_2827568.png) > [All are called to be what in the reality of God they already are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/all-are-called-to-be-what-in-the-reality-of-god-they-already-are/) [Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f4/dietrich-bonhoeffer-303_called_all-are-called-to-be-what-in-the-reality_2881970.jpg) > [All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/all-are-called-to-be-what-in-the-reality-of-god-they-are-already/) [Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b6/dietrich-bonhoeffer-303_god_all-are-called-to-be-what-in-the-reality_1593762.jpg) > [If life is the greatest illusion, then what are the reality of God](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mak-786/if-life-is-the-greatest-illusion-then-what-are-the-reality-of-god/) Mak\_786 [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b37/mak-786-30_illusion_if-life-is-the-greatest-illusion-then-wh_767594.jpg) > [“Jesus’s solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, God.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-piper/jesus-s-solution-to-our-love-affair-with-sin-is-that-we-be-mastered/) [john piper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-piper/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f9/john-piper-255_joy_jesus-s-solution-to-our-love-affair-with_1719349.png) > [“The only way to move from your reality to God’s reality is through people who love you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-l-alder/the-only-way-to-move-from-your-reality-to-god-s-reality-is-through/) [Shannon L. Alder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-l-alder/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93d/shannon-l-alder-363_friendship_the-only-way-to-move-from-your-reality-t_614707.jpg) > [“Christmas is the time to celebrate the reality that God has entered our world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-writers-of-encouraging-com/christmas-is-the-time-to-celebrate-the-reality-that-god-has-entered/) The writers of Encouraging.com [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7d/the-writers-of-encouraging-com_celebrate_christmas-is-the-time-to-celebrate-the-r_2566426.jpg) > [Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/now-is-the-time-to-make-justice-a-reality-for-all-of-god-s-children/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cc/martin-luther-king-jr-127_children_now-is-the-time-to-make-justice-a-realit_1913231.png) > [There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-i-packer/there-are-few-things-stressed-more-strongly-in-the-bible-than-the/) [J. I. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-i-packer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/944/j-i-packer-1856_bible_there-are-few-things-stressed-more-stron_166278.png) > [It is an interesting view of atheism, as a sort of "crutch" for those who can't stand the reality of God](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-stoppard/it-is-an-interesting-view-of-atheism-as-a-sort-of-crutch-for-those/) [Tom Stoppard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-stoppard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20e/tom-stoppard-437_atheism_it-is-an-interesting-view-of-atheism-as_2586282.png) > [“The reality is that God is greater than whatever “goose” is chasing you!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/perry-noble/the-reality-is-that-god-is-greater-than-whatever-goose-is-chasing-you/) [Perry Noble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/perry-noble/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/perry-noble-27768_greater_the-reality-is-that-god-is-greater-than_2121291.png) > [Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist and that there is 'nothing' out there; in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/jewish-christian-and-muslim-theologians-have-insisted-for-centuries/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cb/karen-armstrong-1053_aim_jewish-christian-and-muslim-theologians_2279113.jpg) > [... there are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/there-are-not-two-realities-but-only-one-reality-and-that-is-the/) [Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/819/dietrich-bonhoeffer-303_christ_there-are-not-two-realities-but-only-one_332766.jpg) > [Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabindranath-tagore/whatever-character-our-theology-may-ascribe-to-him-in-reality-god-is/) [Rabindranath Tagore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabindranath-tagore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f6/rabindranath-tagore-383_beloved_whatever-character-our-theology-may-ascr_1899513.png) > [True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-thomas/true-believers-are-continually-shown-by-reality-that-their-god-doesn/) [Mark Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-thomas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3d/mark-thomas-22192_atheism_true-believers-are-continually-shown-by_908353.jpg) > [“...the reality of God...as cosmic Lover, whose care for his people would go to any lengths and would accept suffering, anguish, even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-pittenger/the-reality-of-god-as-cosmic-lover-whose-care-for-his-people-would-go/) Norman Pittenger [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f7/norman-pittenger-266939_abundant-life_the-reality-of-god-as-cosmic-lover-whose_1311300.jpg) > [“The nature of consciousness is to define what it calls reality. It's all of your observations that combine to form what it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-andrew-swann/the-nature-of-consciousness-is-to-define-what-it-calls-reality-it-s/) S. Andrew Swann [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/684/s-andrew-swann-89276_consciousness_the-nature-of-consciousness-is-to-define_2276710.jpg) > [All we know if an angel is that it is incorporeal, immaterial, and only by comparing it with God-who is incomparable-can we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-of-damascus/all-we-know-if-an-angel-is-that-it-is-incorporeal-immaterial-and-only/) [John of Damascus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-of-damascus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d3/john-of-damascus-18351_angel_all-we-know-if-an-angel-is-that-it-is-in_837544.jpg) > [“I have since come to understand the reality that sometimes God wants us to go through a process without ever achieving what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shelene-bryan/i-have-since-come-to-understand-the-reality-that-sometimes-god-wants/) Shelene Bryan [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a75/shelene-bryan-80715_christian-living_i-have-since-come-to-understand-the-real_229555.jpg) > [“THE WORD suchness describes reality as it is. Concepts and ideas are incapable of expressing reality as it is. Nirvana, the ultimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/th-ch-nh-t-h-nh/the-word-suchness-describes-reality-as-it-is-concepts-and-ideas-are/) [Thich Nhat Hanh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/th-ch-nh-t-h-nh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/654/th-ch-nh-t-h-nh-689_anxiety-and-fear_the-word-suchness-describes-reality-as-i_386023.jpg) > [It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/it-fits-to-glorify-god-it-not-only-fits-reality-because-god-is/) [Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df3/timothy-keller-240_action_it-fits-to-glorify-god-it-not-only-fits_317553.png) > [“if one understands what the actual philosophical definition of “God” is in most of the great religious traditions, and if consequently one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bentley-hart/if-one-understands-what-the-actual-philosophical-definition-of-god-is/) [David Bentley Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bentley-hart/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54f/david-bentley-hart-4691_denying-god_if-one-understands-what-the-actual-philo_817676.jpg) > [The world is not looking for more doctrinal proof of the reality of God! It is not looking for greater proof of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-wilkerson/the-world-is-not-looking-for-more-doctrinal-proof-of-the-reality-of/) [David Wilkerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-wilkerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f29/david-wilkerson-3994_argument_the-world-is-not-looking-for-more-doctri_2850029.png) > [The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-rollins/the-argument-is-made-that-naming-god-is-never-really-naming-god-but/) [Peter Rollins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-rollins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d60/peter-rollins-19035_argument_the-argument-is-made-that-naming-god-is_3064130.jpg) > [Reality (i.e., the truth) is that there is a God in heaven. Reality is that He made us and we are accountable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-berg/reality-i-e-the-truth-is-that-there-is-a-god-in-heaven-reality-is/) [Jim Berg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-berg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edb/jim-berg-31880_believe_reality-i-e-the-truth-is-that-there-is-a_399126.png) > [There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/there-s-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-the-problem-is-that-tunnel-is/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98f/terence-mckenna-287_continents_there-s-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-t_489336.jpg) > [The reality is that all God has to do is reveal himself to you,and you'll gladly join the mission in service to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-chandler/the-reality-is-that-all-god-has-to-do-is-reveal-himself-to-you-and/) [Matt Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/797/matt-chandler-2213_crackers_the-reality-is-that-all-god-has-to-do-is_2565278.png) > [“With his five senses he engages this real world. All things necessary to his physical existence he apprehends by the faculties with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-w-tozer/with-his-five-senses-he-engages-this-real-world-all-things-necessary/) [A.W. Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-w-tozer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89f/a-w-tozer-1151_christian-life_with-his-five-senses-he-engages-this-rea_2598768.jpg) > [“regarding the reality of God, one must recall that what one is seeking is a particular experience, one wholly unlike an encounter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bentley-hart/regarding-the-reality-of-god-one-must-recall-that-what-one-is-seeking/) [David Bentley Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bentley-hart/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a56/david-bentley-hart-4691_every-moment_regarding-the-reality-of-god-one-must-re_3062641.png) > [No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-of-nazianzus/no-one-seeing-a-beautifully-elaborated-lyre-with-its-harmonious/) [Gregory of Nazianzus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-of-nazianzus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78e/gregory-of-nazianzus-12417_arrangements_no-one-seeing-a-beautifully-elaborated-l_3072456.jpg) > [“Reality is not only who God is and what he creates; reality is also how God and creation relate. Reality is chock-full…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-matthews/reality-is-not-only-who-god-is-and-what-he-creates-reality-is-also/) [Michael Matthews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-matthews/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c37/michael-matthews-13556_nature_reality-is-not-only-who-god-is-and-what_2326860.jpg) > [“In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the table of elements; he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-piper/in-all-of-knowable-reality-god-is-unique-he-is-knowable-not-like-the/) [John Piper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-piper/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/799/john-piper-255_belief_in-all-of-knowable-reality-god-is-unique_2098149.png) > [“Infinity is the true reality of God. Anything we might call God after that is insufficient to the true reality of what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/val-edward-simone/infinity-is-the-true-reality-of-god-anything-we-might-call-god-after/) [Val Edward Simone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/val-edward-simone/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a37/val-edward-simone-12639_infinity_infinity-is-the-true-reality-of-god-anyt_72365.jpg) > [I'm really grounded in reality and God and my family and friends, so I don't want to be famous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/megan-stalter/i-m-really-grounded-in-reality-and-god-and-my-family-and-friends-so-i/) [Megan Stalter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/megan-stalter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d7/megan-stalter-5903_fame_i-m-really-grounded-in-reality-and-god-a_2944757.jpg) > [There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-no-reality-but-god-says-the-completely-surrendered-sheik-who/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b71/rumi-56_ocean_there-is-no-reality-but-god-says-the-com_1673167.jpg) > [“Pessimism is a denial of the reality of God and the power man draws from being connected to it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arianna-huffington/pessimism-is-a-denial-of-the-reality-of-god-and-the-power-man-draws/) [Arianna Huffington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arianna-huffington/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/831/arianna-huffington-1005_pessimism_pessimism-is-a-denial-of-the-reality-of_2607832.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/reality-god/#itemlist", "name": "Reality God Quotes", "numberOfItems": 40, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tom Stoppard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-stoppard/atheism-is-a-crutch-for-those-who-cannot-bear-the-reality-of-god/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/tom-stoppard-437_atheism_atheism-is-a-crutch-for-those-who-cannot_1258327.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/tom-stoppard-437_atheism_atheism-is-a-crutch-for-those-who-cannot_1258327.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/tom-stoppard-437_atheism_atheism-is-a-crutch-for-those-who-cannot_1258327.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.” — Tom Stoppard", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Yancey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-yancey/prayer-is-the-act-of-seeing-reality-from-god-s-point-of-view/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a46/philip-yancey-840_point-of-view_prayer-is-the-act-of-seeing-reality-from_1062540.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a46/philip-yancey-840_point-of-view_prayer-is-the-act-of-seeing-reality-from_1062540.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a46/philip-yancey-840_point-of-view_prayer-is-the-act-of-seeing-reality-from_1062540.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.” — Philip Yancey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The great unseen reality is God”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "A.W. 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It is not looking for greater proof of the resurrection or better arguments about creation. The world is looking for Christians who can stand up to every crisis, fear, trouble and difficulty and remain calm and at rest in the midst of it all. 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It is not looking for greater proof…” — David Wilkerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 28, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter Rollins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-rollins/the-argument-is-made-that-naming-god-is-never-really-naming-god-but/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d60/peter-rollins-19035_argument_the-argument-is-made-that-naming-god-is_3064130.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d60/peter-rollins-19035_argument_the-argument-is-made-that-naming-god-is_3064130.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d60/peter-rollins-19035_argument_the-argument-is-made-that-naming-god-is_3064130.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To…” — Peter Rollins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 29, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Reality (i.e., the truth) is that there is a God in heaven. Reality is that He made us and we are accountable to Him. Reality is that this God has spoken and what He says matters--eternally. Reality is that without His salvation, we are doomed to eternal torment. Reality is that God's Son, Jesus Christ, has died for the sins of the world, that He has risen again, and that whoever believes on Him is given eternal life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jim Berg" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-berg/reality-i-e-the-truth-is-that-there-is-a-god-in-heaven-reality-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edb/jim-berg-31880_believe_reality-i-e-the-truth-is-that-there-is-a_399126.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edb/jim-berg-31880_believe_reality-i-e-the-truth-is-that-there-is-a_399126.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edb/jim-berg-31880_believe_reality-i-e-the-truth-is-that-there-is-a_399126.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Reality (i.e., the truth) is that there is a God in heaven. Reality is that He made us and we are…” — Jim Berg", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 30, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. 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And if you…” — Terence McKenna", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 31, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The reality is that all God has to do is reveal himself to you,and you'll gladly join the mission in service to his kingdom. He doesn't force the issue; he just has to reveal himself as is: mighty,wondrous, gracious, loving, and radically saving. No man goes back to saltine crackers when he's had fillet mignon.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Matt Chandler" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-chandler/the-reality-is-that-all-god-has-to-do-is-reveal-himself-to-you-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/797/matt-chandler-2213_crackers_the-reality-is-that-all-god-has-to-do-is_2565278.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/797/matt-chandler-2213_crackers_the-reality-is-that-all-god-has-to-do-is_2565278.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/797/matt-chandler-2213_crackers_the-reality-is-that-all-god-has-to-do-is_2565278.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The reality is that all God has to do is reveal himself to you,and you'll gladly join the mission in service…” — Matt Chandler", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 32, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“With his five senses he engages this real world. All things necessary to his physical existence he apprehends by the faculties with which he has been equipped by the God who created him and placed him in such a world as this. Now, by our definition also God is real. He is real in the absolute and final sense that nothing else is. All other reality is contingent upon His. The great Reality is God who is the Author of that lower and dependent reality which makes up the sum of created things, including ourselves. God has objective existence independent of and apart from any notions which we may have concerning Him. The worshipping heart does not create its Object. It finds Him here when it wakes from its moral slumber in the morning of its regeneration. Another word that must be cleared up is the word reckon. This does not mean to visualize or imagine. Imagination is not faith. The two are not only different from, but stand in sharp opposition to, each other. Imagination projects unreal images out of the mind and seeks to attach reality to them. Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there. God and the spiritual world are real. We can reckon upon them with as much assurance as we reckon upon the familiar world around us. Spiritual things are there (or rather we should say here) inviting our attention and challenging our trust. Our trouble is that we have established bad thought habits. We habitually think of the visible world as real and doubt the reality of any other. We do not deny the existence of the spiritual world but we doubt that it is real in the accepted meaning of the word. The world of sense intrudes upon our attention day and night for the whole of our lifetime. It is clamorous, insistent and self-demonstrating. It does not appeal to our faith; it is here, assaulting our five senses, demanding to be accepted as real and final. But sin has so clouded the lenses of our hearts that we cannot see that other reality, the City of God, shining around us. The world of sense triumphs. The visible becomes the enemy of the invisible; the temporal, of the eternal. That is the curse inherited by every member of Adam's tragic race. At the root of the Christian life lies belief in the invisible. The object of the Christian's faith is unseen reality. Our uncorrected thinking, influenced by the blindness of our natural hearts and the intrusive ubiquity of visible things, tends to draw a contrast between the”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "A.W. 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Tozer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 33, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“regarding the reality of God, one must recall that what one is seeking is a particular experience, one wholly unlike an encounter with some mere finite object of cognition or some particular thing that might be found among other things. One is seeking an ever deeper communion with a reality that at once exceeds and underlies all other experiences. If one could sort through all the physical objects and events constituting the universe, one might come across any number of gods (you never know), but one will never find God. And yet one is placed in the presence of God in every moment, and can find him even in the depth of the mind’s own act of seeking. As the source, ground, and end of being and consciousness, God can be known as God only insofar as the mind rises from beings to being, and withdraws from the objects of consciousness toward the wellsprings of consciousness itself, and learns to see nature not as a closed system of material forces but in light of those ultimate ends that open the mind and being each to the other.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Bentley Hart" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bentley-hart/regarding-the-reality-of-god-one-must-recall-that-what-one-is-seeking/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a56/david-bentley-hart-4691_every-moment_regarding-the-reality-of-god-one-must-re_3062641.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a56/david-bentley-hart-4691_every-moment_regarding-the-reality-of-god-one-must-re_3062641.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a56/david-bentley-hart-4691_every-moment_regarding-the-reality-of-god-one-must-re_3062641.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“regarding the reality of God, one must recall that what one is seeking is a particular experience, one…” — David Bentley Hart", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 34, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its craftsman-player, to recur to him in thought though ignorant of him by sight. In this way the creative power, which moves and safeguards its objects, is clear to us, though it be not grasped by the understanding. Anyone who refuses to progress this far in following instinctive proofs must be wanting in judgment. 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Reality is chock-full of relationships: God with God; God with angels; God with Satan; God with demons; God with nature; God with mankind; angels with God; angels with angels; angels with Satan; angels with demons; angels with mankind; mankind with God; mankind with angels; mankind with Satan; mankind with demons; mankind with nature; mankind with mankind. And on and on. The intrigue of all these relationships writes the storyline of reality. Reality can be pictured simply as dots and lines. The dots are the entities of reality; the lines are the interactions and relationships between the entities.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Matthews" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-matthews/reality-is-not-only-who-god-is-and-what-he-creates-reality-is-also/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c37/michael-matthews-13556_nature_reality-is-not-only-who-god-is-and-what_2326860.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c37/michael-matthews-13556_nature_reality-is-not-only-who-god-is-and-what_2326860.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c37/michael-matthews-13556_nature_reality-is-not-only-who-god-is-and-what_2326860.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Reality is not only who God is and what he creates; reality is also how God and creation relate. 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