Pastoral Resources

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.