Oswald Chambers Quotes

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

Truth is always a delusion.

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

Every generation lives with illusions.

I had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world.

Perception is not always reality.

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I’m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn’t real at all.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

Children come running to the truth But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one's living high another's grieving But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.