Pastoral Resources

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.