Pastoral Resources

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Sincerity is moral truth.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.