Pastoral Resources

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

If you speak or write truth about powerful men, they become your enemies.

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

The only ways of enquiry that lead to knowledge... the one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to be, is the trustworthy path, for truth attends it.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.