We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.
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Related We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only wh... RUDOLF STEINER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas ar... DAN BROWN If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we f... FRANCIS SPUFFORD We have no assurance that half-truth will make us free. ROGER J. WILLIAMS We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to th... THOMAS MERTON TRUTH." "Maybe there is a universal truth embedded in everyone's soul. Maybe we all have the sa... DAN BROWN So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead… THOMAS JEFFERSON There are many voices in the world. The social environment will try to mould us in the image and lik... DRAGOS BRATASANU We humans may be brilliant and we may be special, but we are still connected to the rest of life. No... PATRICIA B. MCCONNELL We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us ... RABINDRANATH TAGORE For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead... THOMAS JEFFERSON Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be... DEAN KOONTZ Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our fl... TIMOTHY J. KELLER Dialogue helps us to acknowledge that we see the world not as it is, but as we are. OLI ANDERSON It is obvious that the concept of truth has become suspect. Of course it is correct that is has been... POPE BENEDICT XVI Most of us avoid telling the truth because it’s uncomfortable. We’re afraid of the consequences�... JACK CANFIELD We demand that sex speak the truth [...] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the dee... MICHEL FOUCAULT It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may. We are never able to know ourselves ful... MOHANDAS GANDHI You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our... DEAN JONES Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesu... DAN BROWN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direct... BILLY GRAHAM Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 We must be willing to accept the bitt... THOMAS MERTON I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow. BEN MARCUS Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 We must be willing... THOMAS MERTON A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secre... RALPH WALDO EMERSON We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories a... STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid ... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of... SIMONE WEIL Our college motto is 'lux et veritas' which is Latin for 'light and truth,' ... We mustn't contain o... DAVID POTTS It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whi... K. T. JONG An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of trut... DJAYAWARMAN ALAMPRABU This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afr... THOMAS JEFFERSON The coaching staff has worked us. We are a pretty self-driven team as well, but they know what we ne... NICHOLAUS SEARCY Our Father, who has set a restlessness in our hearts and made us all seekers after that which we can... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our ... BILLY GRAHAM we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it... C. TERRY WARNER At the end of the game we made some crucial free throws and that gave us the lead the entire game. T... KREI MEIER The public may be willing to forgive us for mistakes in judgment but it will not forgive us for mist... ROBERT W. HAACK Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light as it provides shape and form, allowing us to ... EMILY THORNE It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns ... URSULA K. LE GUIN Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be... SAMUEL JOHNSON The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it ... CLEVELAND ABBE We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us. KEN LEVINE If we expect to “know” the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, we may have a hard ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears w... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Brokenness is just like beauty; it's something we wear and carry, and if we let it define us, it wil... LAUREN MILLER One of the greatest gifts that God has given us is free will. Even though it's free, we don'... NIECY NASH I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why?? It's the truth one road and tha... DEYTH BANGER Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of brave... EMILY LLOYD-JONES We did make our free throws. We went at them and made them foul us. We got the ball inside, we didn'... GARY TURCOTT For us to be perceived as having a drug problem, it couldn't be further from the truth. There may be... DAVE BLISS When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by askin... DIETER F. UCHTDORF What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN "Most of the things that we desire in life are expensive, But truth is that the things that really s... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN There are moments of heartache and heartbreak, that we wonder how we did not drop dead in our pain. ... MISHI MCCOY We say, not lightly but very literally, that the truth has made us free. They say that it makes us s... G. K. CHESTERTON If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ... WINSTON CHURCHILL We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be le... SITTING BULL No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become... CHANNING POLLOCK We are glad that our colleagues have allowed us to host the commission and the challenge for us will... MARIA MUTAGAMBA Our route toward spiritual evolution is radiantly clear. We all have our own unique individual journ... LINDA TUCKER But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we h... HAROLD BLOOM Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacen... JOSEPH CAMPBELL We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. OLIVER GOLDSMITH Kindness is a lamp that we should always kindle in our heart. The warmth of it not only make us happ... AKSHAY VASU Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel... JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart. BLAISE PASCAL We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us -... FREDERICK BUECHNER You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the... PAULO COELHO Love will kill us all." He said sadly. "First it makes us lie furiously so we can be what me must in... JESSICA SHIRVINGTON If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by t... BRENNAN MANNING What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretension... ELIAS HICKS When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. DOGEN I know that they are in heaven, ... and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we h... CINDY SHEEHAN Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love f... JOHN OWEN We are all equally capable of spiritual awakening. It may not seem that way, at times. Some of us ar... VICTOR SHAMAS Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re f... IRIS MURDOCH If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th... ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end. ALISON CROGGON Being a Christian does not guarantee us that we are going to have a trouble-free life, but we know t... RUTH ADKINS No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, n... HARUKI MURAKAMI 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON
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FELIX ADLER Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. Copyright doesn't protect ideas,... ALLAN ADLER Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. ALLAN ADLER This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them bec... ALLAN ADLER They think they're being generous, but the burden is on the author and publisher. If it was fair use... ALLAN ADLER In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U.... ALLAN ADLER The role that publishers play in terms of helping to put together the product in a way that has mark... ALLAN ADLER When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has ... ALLAN ADLER The fact that we filed suit shows how important the issue is to us. It may be unwise to make any sig... ALLAN ADLER So I think that some of the fears that people have posed about what this type of publication directl... ALLAN ADLER The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold descript... FREDA ADLER It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply... RENATA ADLER It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. ALFRED ADLER Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest go... FELIX ADLER That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the he... FREDA ADLER Man know much more than he understands. ALFRED ADLER The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t... ALFRED ADLER Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, o... RENATA ADLER The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationshi... ALFRED ADLER