Quotes About Truth

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.

The Lord in founding this work did not ask the opinion of the world as to what they thought of this, that, or the other.

It yields solid satisfaction to hear men testify of the truth of the Gospel. It is always peculiarly interesting to me to hear the Saints tell their experience. It is to me one of the best sermons to hear men and women relate to each other how the Lord has wrought upon their understanding, and brought them into the path of truth, life, and salvation.

If you, my brethren, are quick to comprehend, and if you love the truth, you will treasure up these things and ponder them in your hearts, and when you are asked with regard to them they will be revealed to you.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves -- and that is the real risk.

The truth is, you will never re-create third and 10, down by four, at Texas Stadium, in the fourth quarter, don't try.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy.

I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it's just not real. That's what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happen, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real.

Normal is a myth.

Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.

The Gospel is a declaration of something totally finished apart from our agreement or vote. Inside that declaration is an ongoing and relentless invitation to deepening relationship but any lack of belief or participation on our part has no power to negate the accomplished truth of that declaration.

You don't have to pay tax on bullshit

Benim endi?em ?u ki, kand?rmak aleni bir ?ekilde insanlar?n ya?am ?ekli haline geldi?inde, bu ister bir ki?i olsun, ister bir ülke, herkes aldatman?n kurban? haline gelir.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity. It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.