Pastoral Resources

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.