Pastoral Resources

The truth will only be told over a career.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Truth is a great flirt.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.