Pastoral Resources

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

Actions lie louder than words.

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

Politicians often lie.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.