The arch of history may be long, but it never bends away from reality.
Your mind drinks up whatever YOU pour into it. Pour hope. Pour truth. Pour love. Pour happiness.
Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.
Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. 'Meaningless darkness' becomes 'revelatory darkness' when it is confronted by the courage of a thoughtfulness and hope that is born of faith's quest for truth.
Be true, unbeliever.
For I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at.
In dreams we accept truth much quicker than in the waking world.
Rejedu waa rumaysnaan togan taasoo tartamayaasha noloshu la'aanteed waxba taameen waana tuse tilmaameedka in aynu maalin uun tiigsan doono riyadaynu tabayno.
Ha u guclayn in aad ka garaado badsato ood ka guud marto qof ee u gurguuro sidaad galimadii hore uga Wacnaan lahayd galabta ood joogto.
Truth leads to believe, which produces faith.
クリケットの楽譜で歌われるささやきの歌 Hilsaの魚群の色を膣の形をした網の中に閉じ込めている 自由運動中の絞首刑の殉教者のイチジクの木の下 毛虫噛んだ香料入りレモンの葉の角から 石造りのチップ所有者のうなじ坊主ヒロックから空を飛んで
Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne. Yet that scaffold sways the future. Behind the dim unknown stands God, Within the shadow keeping watch above his own.
What we need is not truths which will serve us, but a truth which we may serve.
If I let that which I hold to be true fall victim to a world that says it is not, I have in that action surrendered to the voices of those who know nothing of the truth other than to destroy it because it terrifies them. And if there’s one thing I should be terrified of it’s not the surrender itself, but the fact that in the surrender I have given the world permission to avoid the very thing that it should fear.
An open mind does not censor truth, it discerns it through recognition, study, doubt, and faith. It recognizes it as complimentary to every truth in existence. When confronted with truth that makes one uncomfortable give yourself time to be open, but also time to acclimatize
Nothing irks a follower of the movement more than the next word: faith. The leaders have practically diagnosed it as the worst possible thing that a sapient creature can have, and yet we all cling to it in the end. We place our trust in people, places, things, both seen and unseen, and most of the time it has served us well as a species. Faith has been a cornerstone and foundation of our species, and other of the Hominidae taxonomy for millions of years. It is the foundation of good relationships, confidence, and even discerning wisdom and truth.
Christ said, not a single iota of the truth He gave was to be changed, then by what right do we sit in judgment on Divinity and say: This much of Your truth we will accept, because it pleases us, and this much we will reject? We are not the creators of divine truth; we are only the trustees and the guardians. God’s truths are not optional any more than the right to happiness is optional; they are not debatable any more than the multiplication table is debatable. Any sect which starts with the assumption that it has rights over God’s truth proves that it is man-made, and a religion that is man-made can be man-unmade. But a Church which is God-made cannot be man-unmade.
Impossible is a fact when it comes to people, but when it comes to God it’s nothing but bad fiction.
Joan of Arc was not stuck at the cross-roads, either by rejecting all the paths like Tolstoy or by accepting them all like Nietzsche. She chose a path, and went down it like a thunderbolt.
There is no such thing as ‘my truth’ or ‘your truth’,” he said. “There is only one truth. You’ll live to find that out.
