Quotes About Truth

his war against modernism and its worship of the spirit of the age. He restored the splendor of truth in his defense of orthodoxy and the splendor of the liturgy in his restoration of tradition. He fought the wickedness of the world in his unremitting and uncompromising battle against the dictatorship of relativism and its culture of death.

St. Augustine says: " Baptism does not consist in the merits of those by whom it is ad ministered, nor in the merits of those to whom it is ad ministered, but in its own sanctity and truth, on account of Him by whom it has been instituted, [it is] for the perdition of those who use it badly and for the salvation of those who use it well." 30

St. Bruno of Asti, who says: " The first tabernacle, therefore, is the Synagogue; the second, the Church; the third, Heaven. . . . The first was in a shadow and an image, the second is in an image and in truth, and the third [will be] in the truth alone. In the first, life is foreshadowed; in the second it is given; in the third it is possessed.

Newspapers should have no friends.

Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social and indistinct expression that we refer to as rhubarb. The very particular volume in which people tell each other their news seems to generate all by itself that acoustic chiaroscuro, a sounding murk, in which every communication seems to lose its edges, truth projects the shadow of a lie, and a statement seems to resemble its opposite.

It is the - actually profoundly unartistic - impulse to produce exterior likeness rather than inner truth: the same impulse as naturalistic photograpy and the "copy.

Oggi tutti parlano la stessa, falsa lingua, e tutte le cose hanno le stesse ma false denominazioni.

And the world was not what it had been. It was at an end. And it was in the disposition of these things that, barely an hour before its end, the valleys and the young and the fools would all be in the right, while the mountains and the old and the wise would all be in the wrong.

He had lived long enough to know that it is foolish to tell the truth

Of course, it's the things you're not told that arouse your interest. The gaps in the news are the interesting bits.

But the sound of despair is never pleasant; it sounds suspiciously like lying.

I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed as it were with concrete and cement, and that the so-called romantic is like an unfenced garden in and out of which truth can wander at will.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

Without light, you will have only your instincts. Follow them and if they are true, you will be safe." "What if they are not true?" "Then you will die in darkness.

Mothwing," she murmured, unable to bear the uncertainty any longer, "who was your father? Was it Tigerstar?" Shock flared in Mothwing's amber eyes. For a moment she hesitated, and then replied, "Yes.

And yet the only reason he had found the courage to lead the forest Clans into battle against BloodClan was because he had believed his warrior ancestors when they told him there had always been four Clans in the forest. The fifth Clan was StarClan, forever protecting the four below. Had StarClan lied? Bluestar

Lies bring shadows in which darker things can hide, never fear the truth, however blinding it may be.

No cat's going to listen to her lies when

My Clan doesn't even know that Sandstorm is dead.

Secrets never stay hidden forever. It takes a good deal of courage to face the truth.

Thank you," the former deputy meowed solemnly. "You revealed the truth when no other cat could.

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow.