Pastoral Resources

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.

Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.