Pastoral Resources

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.