dreams on Nightmares

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

An elderly man had horrible nightmares, the same event happening over and over in his dreams. He would dream that an enormous green dragon was chasing him, and he would become frantic. Then, just abou...

Ronald Rohlheiser begins his excellent book, Our One Great Act of Fidelity , with a story of a young girl. She had awoken from a nightmare, convinced that monsters had invaded her room and were comin...

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

“We walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail, or worse yet, afraid we may succeed.”

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Disturb us, O Lord, when We are too pleased with ourselves, When our dreams have come true Because we dreamed too little, When we arrived safely Because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, O...

You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”

The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capt...

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

When we’re chasing our dreams, all the turbulence we face shouldn’t scare us into pulling back, though. The shaking, jerking, and rattling in our lives are telling us we’re getting close to the breakt...

I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.

Disturb us, Lord, when we are too pleased with ourselves; when our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little; when we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lo...

I believe any dream worth birthing will require fierce labor to bring it forth. Some of those painful, spiritual contractions you’ve been feeling are not necessarily indicators that you are out of God...

In his book The Case for Grace , pastor and author Lee Strobel describes a dream he had as a child after having a significant argument with his father. Strobel does what most of us would do at that...

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

It is not objects that people really desire, but their lush coating of images and dreams. . . . It is never the object which is consumed—instead it is the relationship between us and the object of des...

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

The dream so profoundly called for by Martin Luther King Jr. was not the American dream but a longing for the kingdom of God.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Sleep reminds us of our helplessness. Asleep, we have nothing to commend us; we accomplish nothing to put on our resume. Because of this, sleep is a counter-formative practice that reminds us that our...

We care more for our possessions with which we hope to make our way in the world than with our thoughts and dreams which tell us who we are in the world.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery; where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizons of our ho...

A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.