All Quotes By Tag: Falsehood

“When our faith sinks, empower and uplift usWhen our hopes die, redeem and give us lifeWhen we face battles untold, lead and guard usWhen our sins show, show your mercy and your graceOh Thou who sustained them, sustain usOh Thou who led them, lead usOh Lord God Almighty, be with us!When we meet the walls of Jericho in our days, let them fall before our eyes as in their daysWhen we meet the deepest puzzles like the then,do the Daniels thing for us with Thy ‘pen’Oh Thou who sustained them, sustain usOh Thou who led them, lead usOh Lord God Almighty, be with us!When we seem lost and blockedBe the God of Elijah for usWhen the night seem long for a dawnLet us see the days of Joshua in our daysOh Thou who sustained them, sustain usOh Thou who led them, lead usOh Lord God Almighty, be with us!When the accuser arise with accusations untoldBe our fence, our counsel and our defenseWhen we call on you, answer us by Thy graceWhen we cry unto you, hear us with Thy merciesOh Thou who sustained them, sustain usOh Thou who led them, lead usOh Lord God Almighty, be with us!That glory and honor shall be unto the FatherThat glory and honor shall be unto the SonWe humbly plea; be with us! Be with us!In our journey to Thy gracious end, be with us!Oh Thou who sustained them, sustain usOh Thou who led them, lead usOh Lord God Almighty, be with us!”

“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn’t based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn’t true.”

“So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error, but some sober browWill bless it and approve it with a text,Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts.”

“[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn’t true]Was I to lie in order to teach the truth? …Was I to repeat these words? It was impossible. It was certain they would stick in my throat. On these grounds the separation was decided by me.”

“There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple’s corridors; she does not know herself. ‘I can endure lies,’ she cries. ‘I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude”

“In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were the truths and they were all beautiful. […]There was the truth of virginity and the truth of passion, the truth of wealth and of poverty, of thrift and of profligacy, of carelessness and abandon. Hundreds and hundreds were the truths and they were all beautiful.And then the people came along. Each as he appeared snatched up one of the truths and some who were quite strong snatched up a dozen of them.It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The old man had quite an elaborate theory concerning the matter. It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.”

“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.”

“I’ve been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don’t like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon.”

“As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.”

“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”

“Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.”

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

“Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they’re used.”

“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”

“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an individual’s experiential truths – the extreme of the former is left feeling in the dark whereas the latter is caught blinded by the light. By proper scientific method, it is intellectually dishonest for me to declare the existence of God with utmost certainty, but to my individual spirit, I would be intellectually dishonest to deny the existence of God even for a second. This leaves the best of both worlds, as the believer is called to be able to give reasons for his faith, a deviation from mere fantasy.”