Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.
The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.
People don’t need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?
We have a very real God with a very real presence.
I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don’t think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.
I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.
Everything on the internet is real god damn it!
Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.
You know, I’m a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard – in other words a netbook – will be the mainstream on that.
If I think something’s a waste of time or inappropriate I don’t wait to point it out. I say it right away. It’s real time. So you might hear me say ‘That’s the dumbest idea I have ever heard’ many times during a meeting.
If geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.
In my travels I have found that those who keep Heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. If the glories of Heaven were more real to us, if we lived less for material things and more for things eternal and spiritual, we would be less easily disturbed by this present life.
The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.
Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.
In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.