Pastoral Resources

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.