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Quotes About TRUE

If I have trust in Catholicism, it is because I find in it much more possibility than in any other religion for presenting the full symphony of humanity. The other religions have almost no fullness; they have but solo parts. Only Catholicism can present the full symphony. And unless there is in that symphony a part that corresponds to Japan . . . it cannot be a true religion.
~ Sh?saku End?
From our first breath to our last, we're presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection with other beings: to love them and be loved by them; to show them our true natures and to recognize theirs.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Plato's justification of elite rule is set out in his famous Allegory of the Cave.11 It contrasts the unreality of the images by which the Many live and the true reality that only the Few can approximate.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
I can take a single hair from the braids of an Indian woman and make it sound like a promise come true. Like a thousand promises come true.
~ Sherman Alexie
Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.
~ E. M. Forster
O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life! O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!
~ Edmund Clarence Stedman
No matter what you do, if your heart is ever true, And his heart was true to Poll.
~ Francis Cowley Burnand
Life is not for show, but for real.
~ Mort Kondracke
For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
~ Josiah Royce
The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
~ John Eldredge
The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
~ John Eldredge Brent Curtis
The nation of Israel was not the 'Body of Christ,' even though the Body of Christ is indeed the true 'Israel of God.
~ John G. Reisinger
General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.
~ John Locke
I am but a petty godling, it's true, but I am the god of the dark depths of passion, the sea that draws and gives back life. Tell you don't crave the attention.
~ Elizabeth Bear
His true voice rang Kit like a bell, with a sensation of flying. Or falling.
~ Elizabeth Bear
This must be the way most of us maneuver in the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true. But when I see others walking with confidence down the street, as though they are free completely from terror, I realize I don't know how others are. So much of life seems speculation.
~ Elizabeth Strout
It is true she doesn't exercise, her cholesterol is sky-high. But all that is only a good excuse, hiding how it's her soul, really, that is wearing out.
~ Elizabeth Strout
True authenticity, I'd decided, required an absolute, nearly spiritual denial of the audience, or even of the possibility of being watched; but here, something true, something real, had quickly morphed into something fake.
~ Elizabeth Strout
No one can ever know true Justice or Beauty in his mortal lifetime. He can, however, make the search for that higher knowledge his life's work, just as Socrates did.
~ Arthur Herman
But, true, I've wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
The most extensive ideas that a finite mind can frame about divine love, are infinitely below its true nature.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Emptiness endowed with all supreme aspects" (Tib. rnam kun mchog ldan stong pa nyid) is a name for the true nature of mind, or the way the mind truly exists, which is the inseparable union of emptiness and clear light.
~ Arya Maitreya