Pastoral Resources

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.