Pastoral Resources

It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is basic.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.