Pastoral Resources

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

I was meeting the ball better. The averages don't always tell the whole truth.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.