Truth Quotes - page 85

True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers. (John Shelby Spong)
If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that view of resurrection is not believable, and if that is all there is, then Christianity, which depends upon the truth and authenticity of Jesus' resurrection, also is not believable. View quote
John Shelby Spong
I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life. View quote
Alison Goodman
Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems. View quote
Ellis Peters
Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country. View quote
Andrew Lloyd Webber
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. View quote
Annie Leibovitz
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers. View quote
Jürgen Moltmann
Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it. (Henry Jacob Bigelow)
Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth. View quote
Alan Rudolph
It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth. View quote
Alan Rudolph
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God. View quote
Alfred Hershey
The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril . View quote
Alfred Loisy
I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me. View quote
Alison Krauss
Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing. View quote
Alison Krauss
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent. View quote
Alison Lurie
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow. View quote
Abbey Lincoln
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. View quote
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. (Alveda King)
A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction. View quote
Amber Tamblyn
Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation. View quote
Andrea Anders
The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change. View quote
Andreas Schleicher
The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions. View quote
Ann McLane Kuster